Our Correspondent
Mirpur
United-Kingdom based Pakistani and Kashmiri expatriates and the Sikh community Saturday observed India’s Independence Day as black day to reiterated extreme indignation and hatred against India for keeping bulk of the internationally-acknowledged disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. As all previous years, Pakistani/Kashmiri and Khalistan Movement’s Sikhs marked India’s Independence Day as black day on 15th of August around the globe including in UK – where the British Pakistani / Kashmiri and Sikhs protested in front of the Indian High Commission office in London besides outside the Indian Consulates in Birmingham and other major cities of UK and Europe, said a message reaching and released to the media here on Sunday.
The Chief host organization – Global Pak Kashmir Supreme Council’s Chairman Raja Sikander Khan, the organization’s President Kala Khan and their team along with British Pakistani/Kashmiri and Sikhs protested outside the Indian High Commission London against the ongoing brutalities and human rights violations against the minorities especially Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits and Christians, the message said.
‘It has been over a year of strict siege with huge numbers of Indian Armed Forces patrolling the Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir and complete shutdown by violating all laws of the land and international laws as well as violating the UN resolutions which were agreed upon by both India & Pakistan as India took the initiative of going first to UN to stop the tension in the region and promised the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir that they will hold a plebiscite and gramt them the right of self determination according to the wishes of people of Kashmir’, said Raja Sikander Khan, the GPKSC Chief, President of the organization Kala Khan and other key speakers from all Pakistani, Kashmiri and Sikh Diaspora community while addressing the protest rally.
Lamenting, speakers continued that now the fascist BJP Government-led by the butcher of Gujrat – Narindra Modi who was initially refused a visa to USA and UK due to his criminal and terrorist activities prior to becoming the Prime Minister of India, he was refusing to act upon the promise which was given to the people of Jammu and Kashmir that they would be given their fundamental right of self determination.
In fact, the speakers continued, fascist Modi rule was trying to bring about the demographic changes in the world-recognized disputed Jammu Kashmir state after abrogating special status of the disputed state revoking article 370 & 35A snatching the thousand-years old identity.
