President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in their separate messages, have expressed solidarity with the Kashmiris on the eve of ‘Black Day’ being marked in condemnation of India’s illegal occupation of the region.
They pledged unwavering support until the achievement of their inalienable right to self-determination.
Zardari said that Pakistan would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Kashmiri brothers and sisters until the final resolution of the Kashmir dispute and freedom of Kashmir.
The president also condemned India’s ongoing atrocities in the illegally occupied territory, reaffirming Pakistan’s unwavering moral, diplomatic and political support for the Kashmiri people’s just cause.
PM Shehbaz Sharif, in his message on the occasion, said that the IIOJK people have suffered countless hardships during the last 77 years of occupation.
He further said India had been taking successive steps to tighten its grip over IIOJK since August 5, 2019, when New Delhi abolished the special status of the disputed region.
Shehbaz said that India’s nefarious designs are aimed at undermining the disputed status of IIOJK and denying the Kashmiri people their democratic right to decide their own future.
He promised that Islamabad will continue to extend full moral, diplomatic and political support for Kashmiris.
