Srinagar, September 24, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed, tomorrow, to protest against Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Call for the shutdown has been given by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference to draw the world’s attention towards the Indian occupation and Modi government’s illegal actions taken on and after 05 August 2019 to change the demographic composition of the territory.
The APHC spokesman in a statement in Srinagar said the people of IIOJK through complete shutdown will send a clear message to the international community that they reject India’s illegal occupation of their homeland and will continue their struggle till they are given their UN-mandated right to self-determination.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, maintained that India’s claims of return of normalcy in IIOJK stand exposed as killing of Kashmiris by the Indian troops on daily basis continues. It said that Indian troops martyred four Kashmiri youth in Uri and Shopian areas, yesterday.
Hurriyat leaders and organizations including Javaid Ahmed Mir, Jammu and Kashmir Employees Movement and Jammu and Kashmir National Front in their statements welcomed the remarks of the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, regarding Kashmir dispute at the UN General Assembly. President Erdogan in his speech at the UNGA called for settling the Kashmir dispute under the relevant UN resolutions.
Meanwhile, speakers at a condolence reference held at the office of APHC-AJK chapter in Islamabad, today, paid glowing tributes to veteran journalist, intellectual and Executive Director of Kashmir Media Service, Shaikh Tajammul-ul-Islam. The speakers included Federal Minister, Syed Fakhar Imam, Sardar Masood Khan, Dr Nazir Qureshi, Raja Najabat Hussain, Syed Saqib Akbar, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Ghulam Muhammad Safi and Syed Faiz Naqshbandi.
Members of British Parliament including Stephen Kinnock, Debbie Abrahams, Naz Shah and Afzal Khan taking part in a debate on a motion on “Human rights in Kashmir” in the House of Commons, expressed serious concern over the grim human rights situation in IIOJK. They urged the UK government to play its role in resolving the decades-old Kashmir dispute.
Tehreek-e-Kashmir Switzerland organized a protest demonstration outside the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva against the human rights abuses by India in IIOJK. The protesters were holding banners and posters carrying the pictures of veteran Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, with slogans denouncing his forced burial by the Indian authorities.
In India, two Indian Border Security Force personnel were killed and a senior officer was injured in a fratricidal shootout in the Indian state of Tripura. The incident took place near the border fence gate at Khagracheri post of the force in Karbook sub-division of Gomati district near the Bangladesh border.
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