Indian security forces stationed outside Sayeed’s residence in Srinagar (AFP)

SRINAGAR, October 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Few hours after the world Islamic leaders reiterated support for the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination and urged India to respect their human rights, Indian forces killed Saturday, October 18, two Kashmiri fighters.

The slain fighters were said to have been hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of India-controlled Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti leader Mohammad Sayeed.

"The operation has ended and we have killed both militants," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted as saying Mohammed Amin Shah, Kashmir's deputy inspector general of police.

"It was a joint operation by the police and the BSF (Border Security Force). We have recovered both bodies," he said, while jubilant troops posed for photographs in front of the badly mutilated bodies.

After killing one of the fighters early in the morning, the second who was often changing positions, was killed exactly 24 hours after he entered the complex, an Indian newspaper said.

The two fighters were identified as Abu Mabid and Abu Khubaeb.

At the scene Saturday, Kashmir's police chief Gopal Sharma told AFP, "the building has been cleared of militants and completely secured."

''We conducted searches in the entire complex consisting of more than one hundred shops and it is now fully safe,'' he said.

OIC Support

Wrapping up its tenth summit Friday, October 17, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) reaffirmed its support to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for their legitimate right to self-determination as stipulated by U.N. resolutions.

Islamic leaders also supported the on-going efforts of Pakistan to seek a peaceful resolution on the Jammue and Kashmir dispute through all possible means including substantive bilateral talks with India.

The OIC "called for the respect of the human rights of the Kashmiri people and the ending of continues violations against them, and urged India to allow international human rights organizations to verify the condition of human rights in Kashmir occupied by India".

More than 1.5 million Kashmiri refugees live in Pakistan. Most of them are well settled in urban areas of the country. Less resourceful people still live in refugee camps inside Pakistani part of Kashmir.

The Kashmiri Muslims, who form a clear majority in this Himalayan state, clashed with Indian forces when they demanded their right to independence, sparking one the world’s bloodiest freedom struggle.

More than 39,500 people have died in Indian-administered Kashmir since the eruption of independence-seeking drive in the restive region in 1989.

Kashmiri fighters put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000.

According to Amnesty International figures, more than 75000 Kashmiris have lost their lives in this struggle so far. And it goes on.

India blames Pakistan of insurgency in Kashmir, which has been cause of two out of three wars between the two since 1947.