Altaf Hamid Rao.
Rallies strongly condemns ongoing massacre of innocent Kashmiris by Indian troops in besieged IIOJK,
MIRPUR (AJK): (Parliament Times) People at either side of the Line of Control – Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir Saturday observed India’s Independence Day as black day to mark extreme protest against much prolonged, forced and illegal occupation of a large part of Jammu and Kashmir state by India and to condemn ruthless continual use of force against the innocent people of the besieged IIOJK– currently turned into world’s largest prison ever since the recent scraping of the special status of the disputed state by Delhi’s fascist regime since the black day of August 05 last year.
A mass protest rally held in Mirpur to observe the black day, through a unanimously passed resolution warned India to abstain from launching any aggression against Pakistan or Azad Jammu & Kashmir. “Every individual of AJK is fully prepared to make defense of inch after inch of the motherland – shoulder to shoulder with valiant armed forces of Pakistan if India dared to launch any attack against Pakistan or AJK”, the rally declared.
The rally thanked and paid rich tributes to the people and the government of Pakistan especially Prime Minister Imran Khan assurance, during his visit to Muzaffarabad on August 05 this year, of his unequivocal full support to Kashmiris struggle for right self determination besides Pakistan’s full befitting response to any impending Indian aggression against Azad Jammu & Kashmir from across the LoC.
This year Jammu & Kashmir people are observing India’s Independence Day as black day with more traditional hatred and resentment against India because of her August 05 last year sinister act of abrogating the special status of the world-acknowledged disputed status of the Jammu & Kashmir state through revocation of Art-370 and 35-A of her constitution – violating United Nations resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir issue.
The Indian independence day was marked with mass anti-India protest rallies and demonstrations in all small and major towns in the liberated territory including capital city of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimbher, Rawalakot, Bagh, Palandri, Neelam valley, Jhelum valley, Havaili and other towns and villages.
People from diverse segments of the civil society including social, political and other public representative organization attended the rallies holding black flags and wearing black bands around their arms to mark Indian independence day as black day.
In Mirpur led by the elders of the city representing all walks of life including social and political workers, employees of private and public sector organizations and others, the rally marched the major city streets including Quid e Azam Chowk, Mian Muhammad Road, Allama Iqbal Roa and central Shaheed chowk raising zindabad slogans for Pakistan and the valiant armed forces of the country.
India has imposed indefinite curfew – besides other sanctions including the communication blockade in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir state since over past one year from the black day of August 05 besieging the innocent population into their houses at gun point of her over a million of occupying armed military and para-military troops – with nefarious designs to curb their voice against her (New Delhi) the cowardly act of revoking special status of the disputed Himalayan State- denying all international norms and commitments especially the UN resolutions of Jammu & Kashmir issue.
Through various unanimously-passed resolutions, the rally declared that the people of Jammu & Kashmir were rendering unprecedented sacrifices since last 73 years to achieve the goal of freedom of the occupied Jammu & Kashmir from the Indian yoke and to decide about their destiny through free and fair plebiscite under the spirit of the international norms and commitments.
The rally expressed grave concern over the fast-deteriorating conditions of the people in strife-torn and fully-locked indefinite curfew-riddled Indian held Jammu and Kashmir since past 10 days. India, it said, has litterly turned the occupied J&K state into the world largest jail and the garrison.
India, it continued was trying to push the entire region into sever unrest and tension by revoking the special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed Jammu Kashmir state. It declared the Indian nefarious act as the blatant violation of the UN resolutions and other identical norms and commitments on Kashmir issue.
Categorically rejecting the Indian move of abolishing the special status of the disputed Jammu Kashmir state, the rally, through another resolution expressed full solidarity and sympathies with suffering kashmiri brothers and sisters in these hours of trial. It assured to struggle shoulder to shoulder with their brethren in their just and principled struggle for liberation of the motherland from Indian yoke. The rally warned India of befitting response, shoulder to shoulder with valiant armed forces of Pakistan, if she dared to launch any aggression against Pakistan or Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
The rally, through another resolution, called upon the international community especially the United Nations to immediately move for getting the special status of the disputed Jammu & Kashmir state restored – for onward early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with the UN resolutions. It urged upon the world body to take immediate notice of history’s worst Indian act of state terrorism and aggression let loose against the innocent people in occupied Jammu Kashmir through forcibly revoking the special status of the disputed state.
Through another unanimously passed resolution, the rally called upon world body – UNO, international human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Red Cross, Human Rights Watch and others to immediately move for ensuring the supply of food and medicines to save the lives of the house-detained people in entire curfew-riddled occupied Jammu & Kashmir state in general and the Muslim-majority areas of the troubled valley in particular.
The rally warned to the international community through another resolution that since India was moving for committing the world’s largest phased massacre of the freedom-loving population of the Muslim-majority occupied Jammu Kashmir state, it was enjoined upon the United Nations and the United States like super powers, besides other civilized world to immediately move for keeping extremist Indian Prime Minister Modi to abstained from this act of state terrorism. “Otherwise entire world in general and south Asia in particular may suffer with the unending global war”, it underlined.