Will struggle for Kashmiris' right as their spokesman, advocate: PM.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday while reiterating Pakistan's unshakeable support to the people of Kashmir, assured them that besides being their ambassador, he would continue his struggle locally and internationally for Kashmiris' rights as their spokesman and advocate too.

"Today, I want to tell the people of Kashmir again that being already their ambassador as I had committed to them, I will also become your spokesman. I will also become your advocate,' the prime minister said in his message to the nation on Kashmir Black Day annually observed on October 27 to mark the Indian occupation of Kashmir.

He assured the Kashmir people that whole of the Pakistani nation including the minorities stood by them and would always support them until they got their right to self determination as guaranteed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

He said the October 27 was a black day when the Indian troops had landed in Kashmir. Following this, the Indian prime minister moved to the UNSC which gave Kashmiris the right to decide their future through plebiscite.

Throughout this period, India made many commitments with the Kashmiri people regarding their rights but instead continued controlling them through rigged elections.

A similar election, he said had taken place some 30 years ago and people were killed brutally when they had taken to streets to protest the poll rigging.

He said so far around 100,000 people had been killed in IOJK during this movement of freedom.

Adding fuel to fire, the Narendra Modi regime revoked the disputed status of the territory by amending the Indian constitution and imposed curfew there to suppress the protesting voices.

He said India had usurped all fundamental rights of the Kashmiri people and no one knew what was exactly happening there with the people.

He said in recently held local government election, the Kashmiri people had rejected the Modi's narrative that the constitutional amendment was meant for their welfare. The BJP faced the defeat despite the fact that all the political parties had boycotted the poll, he added.

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