The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leaders have said that huge presence of Indian occupation army in Occupied Kashmir has not stopped Kashmiris from celebrating Pakistan Independence Day and observing Indian Independence Day as Black Day.
The APHC Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) chapter leaders while addressing a protest demonstration here on Wednesday outside the Indian High Commission also warned the Indian government to stop abolishing the Article 35-A of Indian constitution that empowers the Occupied Jammu and Kashmir state's legislature to define "permanent residents" of the state and provide special rights and privileges to those permanent residents and restricts people outside of the state to purchase land in the Held Valley.
The protesters included senior APHC leader Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Abdul Hameed Lone, Syed Muzaffar Shah and others. They strongly condemned Indian government's move of abolition of Article 35-A to bring demographic changes in the Held Valley and vowed not to allow India to do so, saying that the United Nation as well as other global bodies must play their role in compelling India to respect the international obligations.
The protesters carrying placards and banners inscribed with pro-freedom slogans have called upon the international community to take notice of human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir and discharge its moral obligations vis-à-vis the settlement of long pending dispute in line with the United Nations Resolutions. The protesters expressed concern over the unabated wave of killings by the Indian troops in Occupied Kashmir and warned India against the use of brutal tactics to crush the Kashmiris' freedom movement.
The participants of the demonstration said that the Indian government is hatching conspiracies against demography of Jammu and Kashmir by abrogating Article 35-A. The move, they said, is aimed to convert Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir into a minority by settling Indian citizens in the territory. The participants urged the international community to take notice of Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir and impress upon New Delhi to stop raids and arrests of Hurriyat leaders and activists.
The APHC leaders said that the country that claims to be the world's largest democracy on one hand has deprived Kashmiris of their fundamental rights for the last 71 years while on the other its forces have let loose reign of terror in the region to choke off every dissenting voice.
Expressing grave concern over human rights violations in the restive region they said that Kashmiri youth are being killed ruthlessly by Indian forces in fake encounters. They participants of the demonstration called on the European Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, OSCE, ASEAN, SAARC, the Arab League, and the OIC to recognize the right of Kashmiri people to self-determination, and view it as the unfinished agenda of the freedom movement that led to the independence of both Pakistan and Indian in 1947 through a democratic and legal struggle where people voted to join either Pakistan or India after the departure of British forces from the region. India sought UN help in 1948, culminating in the Security Council Resolution of January 5, 1949.
They urged the United Nations Security Council to seize itself of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Kashmir, where India's military occupation authorities have been found involved in arbitrary and extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, denial of basic civil liberties, and the use of rape as a weapon of war. They urged the UN to play its key role in resolving the Kashmir dispute for perpetual peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia.
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