Jammy martyrs day observed in AJK.

Muzaffarabad -- A seminar followed by a rally was organized by Pasban Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir here on Sunday to pay homage to the martyrs of Jammu on this day in 1947.

Many citizens, including leaders of various political and religious parties, participated in the seminar followed by a rally from Old Secretariat to Burhan Wani Shaheed Chowk.

Speaking on the occasion, speakers including former AJK prime minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan and other said that on November 6, 1947, thousands of helpless people of Jammu were mercilessly martyred by Dogra soldiers, Hindu extremists.

They said the massacre of the citizens of Jammu after the Second World War was the worst act in human history. Around 25 million Muslims were killed and their descendants including thousands of children and women were abducted.

The speakers maintained that the massacre was a black mark on human values, saying that purpose of the painful massacre of the Muslims of Jammu was to turn the Muslim majority population into minority.

They voiced that after 75 years, the November 6 massacre in Jammu has exposed the face of Hindutva terrorist organizations to the world as since 1947 till today, the Indian rulers were brazenly following the conspiracies to crush, wipe out and destroy the people particularly Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir.

"Since 2014, Narendra Modi and his cohorts have severely violated the political and basic human rights of the Muslims by carrying out the worst legal aggression in the state" speakers lamented.

The speakers demanded that the United...