Islamabad (Web Desk): President Dr Arif Alvi and Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Friday urged the international community to hold India accountable for its atrocities and human rights violations in Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In his message on the occasion of Kashmir Black Day, President Alvi said the world community and the media should highlight the plight of Kashmiri people.
The president said peace and stability in South Asia depends on the peaceful resolution of Jammu and Kashmir dispute according to the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and aspirations of the Kashmiris.
He said India should understand that it cannot suppress the freedom struggle of Kashmiris through the use of force.
"Pakistan will continue to support Kashmiri brothers and sisters until the final resolution of the dispute in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people," the president said.
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has urged the international community to take practical steps to hold India accountable for its excesses in the occupied Kashmir.
In his message on day, he said an intensified campaign to ‘Indianize’ Kashmir and transform Kashmiris into a disempowered community in their own land has been in full swing since 5 August 2019.
"Indian Occupation has taken a number of steps to realize these nefarious designs, including gerrymandering of the electoral constituencies, addition of non-Kashmiris to voter rolls, issuance of domicile certificates to outsiders, and introduction of new laws on ownership of land and property," PM Kakar said.
Meanwhile, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi said India has been breaching the UN Security Council resolutions which recognize the right of self determination of Kashmiri people.
Addressing a rally in connection with Black Day, he lamented the fact that the champions of human rights turn a blind eye to the atrocities occurring in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The information minister said no power or weapon can suppress the freedom movement.
"The blood rendered by Kashmiri people has further intensified the freedom movement in the occupied valley," the information minister said, adding that without justice, peace cannot be established in the world.
Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and across the world are observing Kashmir Black Day today to convey to the world that India had occupied their motherland illegally on October 27, 1947.
Indian Army had invaded the state of Jammu and Kashmir on this day in 1947, in an attempt to subjugate the Kashmiri people.