MUZAFFARABAD: Black Day was observed throughout AJK against illegal Indian occupation. Protest rallies were organised by different political parties and organisations to highlight Indian atrocities in Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).

Prime Minister Azad Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas attended a protest rally organised by Kashmir liberation commission. Another protest was organised under aegis of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir in which a large number of citizens participated and atmosphere of city echoed with anti-India and pro-freedom slogans. Protestors marched on main highway and presented a resolution to United Nations Military Observer Group of Indian and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).

Kashmiri citizens wore chains in their hands, black bands on their heads and carried banners and placards inscribed with phrases against military occupation of October 27, 1947. While addressing Black Day rally, speakers said that they observed Black Day against Indian military occupation in state of Jammu and Kashmir, adding that every single citizen of state was protesting and expressing hatred against Indian military occupation. They maintained that India had been violating all rights of Kashmiri people for last 75 years as India had turned entire state into a prison with brutality of cruel soldiers and through black laws. Speakers said that United Nations should fulfill promise of right to self-determination, “International community should declare all illegal, unilateral and cruel Indian actions of August 5, 2019, null and void”, they demanded.

Speakers said that India can never crush freedom of Kashmiri people through military occupation and terrorism. As protesters reached UNMOGIP office, a six-member delegation led by Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmed Ghazali presented resolution to UN delegation. Leader of opposition in legislative assembly Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, Secretary Kashmir Liberation Commission Ejaz Ahmad Lone, Abdul Razzaq Khan,Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Usman Ali Hashim, Shaukat Javed Mir, Bilal Ahmad Farooqi, Muhammad Aslam, Javed Ahmed Mughal, Mehtab Hameed Advocate, Dr. Muhammad Manzoor and Tanveer Durrani and others were present.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 28 2022

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