New Delhi, August 04, 2022 (PPI-OT):Illegally detained senior APHC leader, Nayeem Ahmed Khan has said that August 5, 2019 marks the beginning of Indian settler colonialism that seeks to change the demography of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Nayeem Ahmed Khan in a message from Tihar jail, while highlighting Indian government’s expansionist designs, said that the move to strip IIOJK of its identity was part of New Delhi’s deep-rooted conspiracy to convert the Muslim majority of the territory into a minority.
Terming Modi government’s 5th August 2019 action as ultra vires, he said that the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A was not only violation of the Indian Constitution but also against the spirit of the UN resolutions and other international treaties.
He described August 5 as the darkest day in Kashmir’s recent history and said that the illegal actions taken by the Modi regime on the day in 2019 were meant to deprive the Kashmiris of their resources, jobs, identity, culture, land and above all the promised right to self-determination.
Kashmiris, he said, have never accepted India’s forcible and illegal occupation of their motherland. “The valiant people of Kashmir have yet again refused to accept this forced annexation and bifurcation of the territory”, Khan said, adding that unlawful move by the Indian state has only increased the level of public resentment against the occupation.
He said that amendments in Kashmir’s domicile law have evoked strong reactions from people hailing from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. “Even the Dogra and Hindu community, who feel that they were betrayed by the BJP government, have raised their revolt against the induction of new laws in J and K”, the APHC leader said.
“Since 1947 India had extended a number of orders/ordinances to strengthen its unlawful control over the disputed territory but the fact remains that these steps have failed to subdue the Kashmiris and break their will to fight for their political and democratic rights guaranteed to them by no less an authority than the United Nations”, he said.
Khan said that no piece of legislation by the Indian parliament can change the disputed nature of the Kashmir issue, adding that rather than misleading their own people the Indian rulers should accept the ground reality and resolve the dispute peacefully in accordance with the universally accepted principle of right to self-determination.
Urging the world community to take effective notice of the Indian expansionist designs, he said it was high time that the world should respond positively to clarion calls emanating from Kashmir and influence the government of India to reverse its illegal and unilateral actions regarding Kahsmir.
Reiterating his party’s call for observing Youm-e-Istehsal on August 5, Nayeem Ahmed Khan appealed Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over to raise their voice against India’s illegal move and expose its ugly face before the world.
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