Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR ( AJK), (Parliament Times) : Local media fraternity, affiliated with national and regional print and electronic media observed India’s Independence Day as black day here on Thursday to express Kashmiris full dissociation and hatred against New Delhi for keeping bulk of their motherland illegally at gun point for last 77 years and to urge upon international community to ensure its due role for early peaceful settlement of Kashmir conflict under the spirit of international norms and commitments.
Our Special Jammu and Kashmir state Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Mirpur that large number of journalists, besides civil society representatives from all walks of life participated in the protest rally organized under the auspices of Kashmir Press Club Mirpur.
The participants carried black flags. The protestors chanted slogans including ‘freedom is Kashmiris right’, ‘we will secure our freedom”, leave Kashmir to ‘ Indian usurpers – leave Kashmir’, ‘long live valiant armed forces of Pakistan’,
While strongly condemning India’s usurpation and the inhumane atrocities being inflicted on innocent Kashmiris in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir state, speakers including Kashmir Press Club President Syed Abid Hussain Shah and others said that Kashmiris will continue to observe India’s Independence and other national days as a black day every year until the occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir is freed from Indian forced and unlawful rule. The rally later dispersed peacefully.