Srinagar: Lithium is a non-ferrous metal and is one of the key components in EV batteries. “For the first time, lithium reserves have been discovered and that too in Jammu and Kashmir,” Indian Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj said.
Upon exploration by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), lithium reserves have been found in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Successive Indian governments always treated Kashmir as a colony and exploited its natural resources, killed and maimed its population with full impunity through heavy militarization.
The marginalization of majority population in Kashmir, policies of land grab, wholesale extermination of the locals, exploitation of natural resources, rampant aggression, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and systematic genocide of Kashmiri youth by the Indian forces are obvious manifestations of the racist regime’s apocalyptic vision and attitude towards Kashmir and Kashmiris.
Geological Survey of India has found 5.9 million tonnes of lithium reserves in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj said, Lithium is a non-ferrous metal and is one of the key components in EV batteries. “For the first time, lithium reserves have been discovered and that too in Jammu and Kashmir.”
All these manipulations and constitutional amendments are in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, international human rights, humanitarian law, 4th Geneva Conventions and India’s international obligations. Indian hegemonic designs are the biggest threat to regional peace.
It is high time that international community and UN Human rights bodies play their part to hold India accountable and put a halt to the current machinations of India, which pose a serious existential threat to Kashmiris.
Hurriyat leaders and organizations have called upon the United Nations to stop India from robbing the resources of the international-acknowledged disputed Jammu and Kashmir by India.
Hurriyat leaders and organizations in their statements in Srinagar called upon the United Nations to stop India from robbing the resources of the international-acknowledged disputed Jammu and Kashmir by India.
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