ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Minister Qureshi on Sunday said that innocent people of occupied Kashmir are forced to live like strangers on their own land for the past three months.
In a statement on Kashmir Black Day, the minister said that India has turned the occupied valley into the biggest jail as people living there are facing curfew. He further urged the international community to play a role in giving the right of self-determination to the Kashmiris.
On the other hand, Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and all over the world are observing Black Day to convey a joint message that they have rejected India’s illegal occupation of their homeland on this day in the year 1947.
This was the day when Indian troops forcefully invaded Jammu and Kashmir and occupied it in blatant violation of the partition plan of the Subcontinent and against the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said the world would be apprised once again of the enormity of the situation in the IoK.
Several programmes, including rallies and seminars, have been planned throughout the country to express solidarity with the people of occupied Kashmir.
Instructions have also been given to Pakistani missions abroad to organise events and engage with Pakistani Diaspora, local parliamentarians, think-tanks and intellectuals to highlight the significance of the day.
In Azad Kashmir, rallies, demonstrations and protest gatherings will be held in all small and big cities of the state under the auspices of Kashmir Liberation Cell, Hurriyat and religious organisations.