The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the people in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and around the world to observe Black Day on October 27 to convey the world the urgency to resolve the Kashmir dispute to avert a global catastrophe, for Jammu and Kashmir being surrounded by three nuclear powers.
According to Kashmir Media Service, it was on 27th October in 1947 when Indian troops had invaded Jammu and Kashmir and occupied it in total violation of the Partition Plan of the subcontinent and against the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
The APHC senior vice Chairman Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar in a statement in Srinagar also appealed to all Kashmiris living across the globe to observe 27th October as Black Day. It said, Kashmiris are demanding their promised right to self-determination by all rightful means but India is suppressing the innocent Kashmiris with iron hand. Kashmir has been turned into a military garrison and disappearance, custodial killings, harassment and torture is the daily routine, it added.
The statement said that for over 4 years, Kashmiris are under constant siege of one million trigger-happy troops who are marauding and brutalizing Kashmiri society with atrocious vengeance. Besides this, Modi regime is hellbent to impose its Hindutva agenda on Kashmiris and change the demography of theregion.
The Hindutva regime in pursuit of the Israeli model is committing genocide of Kashmiris and depriving them of their land, identity, resources and culture.
Gulzar expressed solidarity with Palestinian people and appealed to the world to save humanity in Gaza from Israeli madness. He said that Kashmir and Palestine are the oldest unresolved issues on the UN agenda risking the world peace if the peoples of the two regions are not granted the right to self -determination. The expansionist designs of Israel and India have endangered the peace of the entire world, he warned.
Meanwhile, posters have again appeared in Srinagar and other areas of the territory asking people to observe October 27 on Friday as Black Day.
On the other hand, APHC leaders, Devinder Singh Behl, Hilal Ahmed War, Jammu and Kashmir National Front spokesman Shafiqur Rehman and APHC-AJK leader Altaf Wani in their statements said 27th October 1947 is the blackest day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. They said, the valiant people of Jammu and Kashmir are struggling against the illegal occupation of India and the implementation of the right to self-determination given by the international community and endorsed by India for more than the past seven decades and have given unprecedented sacrifices.—KMS
