Right to self-determination of the Kashmiris reiterated at Kashmir Black Day.

Ankara -- An event to mark the Kashmir Black Day on 27 October was held in Ankara on Saturday . Organized by the Anadolu Youth Association..

Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador of Pakistan, Syrus Sajjad Qazi, said that millions of Kashmiris across the globe were marking black day on 27 October. On that day in 1947, the overwhelmingly Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir was forcibly occupied by India, against the wishes and aspiration of the Kashmiris.

This illegal aggression, he added, resulted not only in one of the worst human rights situations of recent times in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir but also gave birth to a protracted dispute that continued to threaten regional and international peace and security.

Ambassador Qazi underlined that India continued to blatantly violate the relevant UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir that guaranteed the Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination. He added that India's illegal and unilateral steps of 5 August 2019, yet again, were

in direct contravention of these resolutions, and were hence condemnable in the strongest possible terms.

He also expressed deep...

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