Black Day: Global protests as Kashmir comes to a standstill

Kashmiri's across the globe are observing a black day to protest India's occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. The day will be marked with a total shut down in Indian occupied Kashmir.

All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman Syed Ali Gillani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and other Kashmiri leaders called the annual strike.

Rallies would be held in support of Kashmiri's liberation struggle in Pakistan and almost all major cities of the world.

It was on October 27 in 1947 when Indian troops landed in Srinagar and occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Emphasizing that Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination is recognized by UN Security Council resolutions, Pakistan has recently called for a peaceful settlement of the decades-old Kashmir dispute that would lead to durable peace and stability in South Asia.

“The decolonization agenda of the United Nations would be incomplete without resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,” Raza Bashir Tarar, Pakistan’s deputy permanent Representative to the UN, told the General Assembly’s Fourth (Decolonization) Committee this month.

Speaking in a general debate, the Pakistan delegate said decolonization was an objective of such importance that it could not be limited to the ‘Non Self Governing Territories’ alone.

The negation of the right to self determination often ignited regional conflicts that threaten peace and security. “Such conflicts cannot be swept under terrorism or religious rivalries,” he added.