ISLAMABAD
\nSenior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Nayeem Ahmed Khan, while urging the Kashmiris to observe October 27 as a black day, has said that the Indian army\u2019s invasion of Kashmir was the most dreadful incident of India\u2019s colonial history that threw the region into throes of instability and perpetual violence.
\nIn his message from Tihar jail on Saturday, the incarcerated leader said that October 27 marks the beginning of Indian Occupation of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
\n\u201cIt was on this day in 1947 the leaders of the so-called secular India rushed its troops to Srinagar in the dark of night trampling down under the jackboots the Kashmiris\u2019 political and democratic rights for which the Indians had themselves fought for years together under and against the British rule\u201d, Khan said.
\nHe said that India\u2019s attempt to legalize its illegality rests on a bogus instrument of accession by a Maharaja, which the ruler had not authority to sign in any event. Referring to British historian, Alister Lamb, Khansaid that the author in his book had convincingly demonstrated that the \u201cInstrument of accession\u201d was bogus.
\nHe said that India\u2019s perpetual denial to grant right of self-determination to the people of Kashmir has brought death and destruction in the region. \u201cKashmiris are being brutally victimized by 900,000 Indian military and paramilitary personnel deployed in the length and breadth of Kashmir\u201d, he said. \u201cDuring the past three decades alone, more than 100,000 Kashmiris have been killed because of India\u2019s mammoth military occupation and savagery\u201d, Khan further said.
\nHe said that on the one hand India had backtracked from the commitments it had made vis-\u00e0-vis the resolution of Kashmir dispute while on the other its refusal to accept international mediation seems to shut the door on any kind of international dialogue regarding Kashmir.
\nUrging the Indian government to shun its policy of intransigence, Khan said that dialogue was the only way forward to seek a just and lasting settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
\nMeanwhile, the illegally detained APHC leader paid rich tributes to the Bijbehara martyrs on their martyrdom anniversary. He said that the supreme sacrifices rendered by Kashmir martyrs have brought Kashmir into limelight at international level.
\nIt may be recalled here that over 50 innocent Kashmiris were martyred at Bijbehara area of Islamabad district on October 22, 1993, when the Indian Border Security Force personnel opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators, who were protesting against the Indian military siege of Srinagar\u2019s Hazratbal shrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Nayeem Ahmed Khan, while urging the Kashmiris to observe October 27 as a black day, has said that the Indian army\u2019s invasion of Kashmir was the most dreadful incident of India\u2019s colonial history that threw the region into throes of instability and perpetual violence. In his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n