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Showing posts with label Black day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black day. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Kashmiris to observe black day on Jan 26 : APHC

Srinagar, January 16: In northern disputed state of Kashmir, India’s Republic Day on 26th January will be observed as a Black Day to remind the international community that India has trampled over all democratic norms and recognized standards of justice by continuously denying Kashmiris’ inalienable right to self-determination, reports KMS.

Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement in Srinagar today appealed the Kashmiri people to observe complete strike on this day.

The statement also strongly denounced the life imprisonment awarded on Saturday by a Delhi court to six people including two Kashmiris in a false case against them. It said that India after implicating the Kashmiri youth in concocted cases was victimizing them through its biased courts.

Senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah visited Bijbehara and expressed solidarity with the families of the youth who had been martyred by Indian police and troops during the past six months. Talking to the people on the occasion, he said that sacrifices of the Kashmiri martyrs would not be allowed to go waste.

A delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement after visiting Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu said in a statement that the political detainees were being deprived of sufficient medical and food facilities due to which they had developed various ailments of serious nature.

Indian police arrested six more innocent persons five of them from Nowhatta in Srinagar and one from Navpachchi area of Doda.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Kashmiris to observe Oct ober 27 as black day: Mirwaiz


Srinagar, October 21: In disputed state of Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the people of Kashmir will observe October 27 as black day as the Indian troops invaded Jammu and Kashmir on the day in 1947.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, addressing a party meeting in Srinagar, said that Kashmiris would march towards the United Nations office on the day to draw the attention of the world body towards the gross human rights violations perpetrated by Indian troops in the territory. “The people will appeal the UN to impress upon India to give them their right to self-determination as promised in its resolutions,” he added.

He said that a memorandum would also be presented to the US Embassy in New Delhi during the forthcoming visit of the US President, Barack Obama. Mirwaiz asked the US to press India to resolve the Kashmir dispute through meaningful talks with Pakistan and the real Kashmiri leadership.

The APHC Chairman said the settlement of the longstanding dispute is vital to peace and stability in South Asian region.(Writer-South Asia)