ISLAMABAD
\nPresident Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have called upon the international community to exert pressure on India to halt its ongoing human rights abuses in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying Pakistan had always expressed its unwavering solidarity with Kashmiri brothers and sisters and it will continue to extend its full moral, diplomatic and political support to them.
\n\u201cPakistan will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Kashmiri brothers and sisters until they achieve their inalienable right to self-determination,\u201d the president said in a message on the occasion of \u201cKashmir Black Day\u201d, 27 October 2024.
\nThe president said October 27, 1947, marked a dark chapter in South Asian history when India sent troops to occupy Jammu and Kashmir. For decades, the people of IIOJK have endured brutal repression by Indian forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have called upon the international community to exert pressure on India to halt its ongoing human rights abuses in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying Pakistan had always expressed its unwavering solidarity with Kashmiri brothers and sisters and it will continue to extend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n