APHC calls for complete shutdown in IIOJK on Youm-e-Istehsal.

ISLAMABAD -- In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) while reiterating its call for a complete shutdown, civil curfew and large-scale protest demonstrations on August 5, the Youm-e-Istehsal, appealed to the people to offer special prayers for the success of the ongoing freedom movement.

The incarcerated APHC Vice Chairman, Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, in a special message from Srinagar Central Jail said that August 5 is one of the most tragic, painful and darkest days of Kashmir history and the Kashmiris will always observe it as Youm-e-Istehsal.

It was on August 5 in 2019 when RSS-backed fascist government led by killer of humanity Narendra Modi usurped political, social, religious and all other basic rights of Kashmiris, turned IIOJK into a big open-air prison, he added. He termed the August 5 action as AN attack on Kashmir's unique identity, culture, demography and fundamental rights by Hindutva forces.

The APHC leader deplored that the RSS-backed Modi government was hell-bent on turning Jammu and Kashmir into a graveyard and wasteland for imposition of its devil Hindutva ideology. He said the Hindutva forces have started the settler-colonial project by bringing administrative changes in the disputed region which started with the introduction of new domicile law.

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