Calling for implementation of UN resolutions for early settlement of the Kashmir dispute, Kashmiris on both sides and other Line of Control (LoC) and the rest of the world are all set to observe the right of self-determination day today on January 5 (Friday) with the renewal of the pledge to continue their ongoing struggle for freedom of the motherland from Indian clutches with full vigor till the achievement of their legitimate right of self-determination through implementation of the U.N. resolutions without further delay.
The day is observed every year by Jammu and Kashmir people to invite the attention of the international community and the United Nations towards the early grant of the right to self-determination to Kashmir through the implementation of the historic resolutions on Kashmir passed this day (January 5) in 1949 by the Security Council of the UNO.
Adequate arrangements have been made in Azad Jammu Kashmir to observe the day to be followed by mass public rallies, besides special gatherings and processions, in all ten district headquarters of the liberated territory as the hallmark of the day. The special meetings to be held to mark the day would highlight the importance of early grant of the right of self-determination to Jammu and Kashmir people, which has been suppressed and denied by India for over seven decades.
This year too, the right of self-determination day is being observed when India, by openly violating and denying all international norms and commitments, abrogated the special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed state of the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir through scrapping Articles 370 and 35-A of her own constitution. Since August 5, 2019, sinister forces have taken action by turning the entire illegally occupied Jammu & Kashmir state into the world’s largest prison since the above bleak day in the history of the disputed Himalayan state.
