The Save Youth Save Future Foundation on Thursday (September 4, 2025) released a research report on “Unmarked and Unidentified Graves in Kashmir Valley”, based on a six-year study involving the survey of 4,056 graves located at 373 burial sites. A key finding was that unidentified foreign militants constituted the largest category, accounting for 2,493 graves or about 61.5% of all the documented burials.
Those unidentified foreign militants had infiltrated from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and were killed during counter-insurgency operations. Most of them carried no identification papers to conceal and protect their networks and “maintain Pakistan’s plausible deniability regarding its involvement in Kashmir militancy”.
