Black day observed to awaken world conscious: AJK Premier.

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanvir Ilyas Khan has said that Kashmiris have sacrificed their three generations to achieve their cherished goal of freedom from India's forcible occupation.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, the PM while castigating India's forcible occupation of Kashmir said that the people of the occupied Kashmir have been observing the so-called Republic Day of India as a black day with a view to telling the world that the Indian occupation of their motherland wasn't acceptable to them. He said the Kashmiris living on both sides of the LoC and the rest of the world observe the Indian republic day as a black day.

Stressing the need for resolving the lingering dispute peacefully in line with the wishes and aspirations of the Kashmiri people, the PM said that the international community should come forward to help Kashmir determine their future on the universally accepted principle of the right to self-determination.

Prime Minister Khan said that India claims to be a democratic country but Modi has turned it into a fascist state where minorities were being ruthlessly attacked and persecuted. He said that India had backtracked from commitments it had made vis a vis holding of a plebiscite to allow Kashmiris to decide their political future.

Terming Kashmir as an international dispute, he said that Kashmir has never been a part of India. "Kashmiris consider themselves as Pakistanis", he said adding that the people of Kashmir...

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