Another staged encounter by the Indian Army in occupied Kashmir has been exposed, with local resident Altaf Lali being killed in what appears to be an extrajudicial execution.  According to sources, Altaf Lali was abducted from his home by Indian forces on April 22, 2025. A female resident of occupied Kashmir detailed the circumstances surrounding the fake encounter. She explained that authorities first called Lali's sister to come to the police station. While they eventually released the sister, they detained Altaf Lali. 

"Later, at around 6 PM, they called the family and informed them that he had been killed in an encounter," the Kashmiri woman recounted. She questioned the official narrative, asking, "If he was truly a militant, how could he have been living openly at home?" The resident expressed frustration over the lack of accountability: "Now when we raise our voices, no one listens to us. They took him far away to kill him where we cannot even see his body." She emphasized the inconsistency in the Indian forces' claims: "If Altaf Lali was actually a militant commander as they claim, such commanders don't live openly in homes.

The Indian Army knew he wasn't a commander, so why did they kill him?" According to a report from last year, India has carried out more than 7,000 extrajudicial killings of Kashmiris since 1989. This incident follows another fake encounter on April 24, 2025, when Indian forces killed Mohammad Farooq and Mohammad Din. The truth about the Indian Army's false encounters has already been exposed at the international level, highlighting a pattern of human rights violations in the region.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)