SRINAGAR: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and across the world are observing Indian Independence Day, today, as ‘Black Day’ to convey the message to the international community that India had usurped their inalienable right to self-determination.
A complete strike is being observed in Indian occupied Kashmir after a call for black day came from several liberation leaders including Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Further, Hurriyat leaders Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Hakeem Abdul Rasheed, Bilal Siddiqi and Syed Bashir Andrabi in a joint statement said, “India had no moral or constitutional justification to celebrate its Independence Day in the disputed territory forcibly occupied by it.”
Protest rallies and different functions will be held in the territory and in world capitals to highlight different dimensions of the Kashmir dispute and Indian atrocities on innocent Kashmiris.
