Protest rallies taken out in Occupied Kashmir on Monday marking the Martyrs’ Week reflect the people’s unflinching resolve to assert their right to self-determination. During the protests, families of the missing persons also took to the streets to demand their recovery. Given the daily acts of bloodshed perpetrated by the Indian Army that was recently censured at a summit in Oslo for using draconian powers, there are no two opinions on how worse are the prevailing state of affairs. The Kashmiris are arbitrarily picked up, fired at when they are out on the roads to protest and even their homes are raided. The number of those martyred since the occupation stands close to 80,000. The discovery of more than 2,700 mass graves in the Valley containing mutilated bodies once again showed the kind of atrocities that are being committed with impunity. The dispute that has to all intents and purposes become a nuclear flashpoint is the main hurdle in the normalisation of ties between Indian and Pakistan. It is disconcerting to know that the word Kashmir often does not even figure in the bilateral talks. As fallout of Islamabad’s lukewarm posturing, there has been widespread resentment among leaders in the occupied state. It is with the Kashmir conflict’s resolution that peace and harmony will come.