Kashmir Black Day
MUZAFFARABAD
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq has said on Sunday that on October 27, 1947, India violated the principles of the partition of the subcontinent by deploying its forces in Kashmir against the will of its people and occupied a part of the region. In his special message on the occasion of Kashmir Black Day, the Prime Minister said that India’s claim over Jammu and Kashmir, based on the so-called Instrument of Accession, was rejected by the United Nations.
He added that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have never accepted India’s illegal and oppressive occupation and have continued their struggle for freedom to this day.
Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq noted that Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and across the world observe October 27 as Black Day every year, to protest India’s forcible occupation of the territory. He said that for the past 77 years, India has been committing grave human rights violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The prime minister recalled that in November 1947, Indian forces, along with Dogra troops, RSS, and Akali Dal extremists, massacred around 250,000 Muslims in Jammu and forced hundreds of thousands more to migrate. He said that due to Indian atrocities, many people were also forced to migrate to Azad Kashmir and Pakistan during the wars of 1965 and 1971. Since 1989, more than 96,000 civilians have been martyred in occupied Kashmir, and the lives, property, and honor of Muslims there are no longer safe.
