ISLAMABAD, Apr 04 (dna):As the world observes International Day for Mine Awareness on Saturday , a noted human rights activist in Indian occupied Kashmir said that response of the Indian government to deal with the menace has been disappointing.
	According to Kashmir Media Service, an award-winning activist Khurram Parvez, also a landmine victim, while monitoring elections in 2004, lost one of his legs in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast.
	In an exclusive interview with foreign media, Parvez, who also heads the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances and is the program coordinator of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, pointed out that there is no specific data on the total area under landmines in Indian occupied Kashmir.
	Khurram Parvez said that hundreds of thousands of APMs were laid along the 734-kilometer (456-mile) Line of Control and the 190 km (118 mi) of the international border between India and Pakistan during the 1999 Kargil War and then again in 2001 when both countries were face to face following an attack on the Indian Parliament.
	The Indian government told Jammu and Kashmir Assembly in 2013 that the Indian Army had laid land mines in approximately 3,512 acres of land in several villages in 1999.