NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. PHOTO: FILE
“The Kashmir dispute is a burning issue and an unending threat to peace, not just in the region but the entire world,” said Sadiq in a message on the 71st Black Day being observed on Friday.
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October 27 is commemorated as black day every year by Kashmiris and their supporters throughout the world in protest against the illegal occupation of the Kashmir valley by the Indian armed forces in 1947. The day is a reminder to the world community and the UN of their obligations towards the people of Kashmir.
The NA speaker urged the international community to play its due role in ending the atrocities and human rights violations being committed by the Indian security forces in the held valley.
“[Our] relations with our Kashmiri brethren are not only based upon religion, civilisation and humanity, but are also of blood,” he said while expressing solidarity with the people of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
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He said Pakistan was firmly committed to finding out a just and peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiris. He assured the people of Kashmir that Pakistan would continue their moral, political and diplomatic support at regional and international forums till the realisation of their objectives.
Sadiq lamented the indiscriminate use of pellet guns on unarmed protestors, human rights violations, desecration of human lives, rapes, depriving children of their eyesight, detention of Kashmiri leadership and imposition of curfew in IOK.
He said the struggle of the Kashmiri people for their self-determination could not be silenced by guns and atrocities, adding that their sacrifices would not go in vain.
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National Assembly Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi, in his message, mentioned the long history of human rights violations in IOK, and said the UN had declared the territory disputed.
He said India herself approached the UN and promised to honour the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination by holding plebiscite in IOK.
The deputy speaker called for an end to human rights violations in IOK and urged the UN and human rights organisations to pay special attention for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
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