Srinagar, Nov. 13 -- Zeeshan Shagufta

This remains an absolute truth that Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir ( PoJK) is a heavily militarized zone, an open-air prison, a locked valley, an occupied land, and the world has seen this. Pakistan has left no stone unturned in showing this to the world, and the region has been subjected to unprecedented oppression, suppression, and repression since being occupied by Pakistan, particularly over the past five months. Tragedy, pain, deaths, killings, arrests, and intimidation have become a common sight in the visuals emerging from the valley. It would not be an exaggeration to call PoJK a slaughterhouse, or at least, it has become so.

Why call it a slaughterhouse? Naming it so is something reall...