Kashmiris observe India’s India’s Independence Day as black day at both sides of LoC: rki.news

English , Kashmir - آزاد جموں کشمیر , Snippets , / Friday, August 15th, 2025

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Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR ( AJK): August 15: Jammu Kashmir people inhibiting either side of the LoC – Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir state and rest of the world on Friday observed India’s Independence Day as a black day to mark protest against long forced and illegitimate occupation of a large part of Jammu and Kashmir State by India.

“Every individual of AJK is fully prepared to make the defense of inch after inch of the motherland – shoulder to shoulder the valiant armed forces of Pakistan if India dared to launch any aggression against Pakistan or AJK”, speakers declared while addressing the anti-India rallies held across AJK to mark the day as black day.

Our Special Jammu Kashmir state Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Mirpur that the rallies, through unanimously passed resolutions, thanked and paid rich tributes to the people and the government of Pakistan for their unequivocal full support of Kashmiri’s struggle for right self-determination.

The Indian independence day was marked with mass anti-India protest rallies and demonstrations in all small and major towns in the liberated territory including the capital city of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimbher, Rawalakot, Bagh, Palandri, Neelam Valley, Jhelum valley, Havaili and other towns and villages.

People from diverse segments of civil society including social, political, and other public representative organization attended the rallies holding black flags and wearing black bands around their arms to mark Indian Independence Day as black day.

In Mirpur, elders of the city representing all segments of life including social and political workers, employees of private and public sector organizations led the rally which marched through major city streets including Quid e Azam Chowk, Mian Muhammad Road, Allama Iqbal Road, and central Shaheed chowk raising zindabad slogans for Pakistan and the valiant armed forces of the country.

In district Mirpur, a protest rally against India was led by District Bar Association President Mahmood Hussain Plakvi Advocate. Shakoor Mughal of Muslim Conference, Asif Butt of Jamaat-e-Islami, ex President Kashmir Press Club Mirpur Mirza Sajjad Jarral, local Manager Kashmir Liberation Cell Sardar Azeem Sarwar, Chief Officer MCM Shiraz Ahmed, Presiden Anjuman Falah-o-Behbud Dr. Tahir, Duty Magistrate Tehsildar Imran Chaudhry and others, was staged to observe the black day, through a unanimously passed resolution warned India to abstain from launching any unprovoked aggression again against Pakistan or Azad Jammu & Kashmir, or be ready to face the music as of the Maarka e Haq at the hands of the brave armed forces of Pakistan in May this year.

The rally expressed grave concern over the fast-deteriorating conditions of the people in strife-torn am Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir state. India, it said, has,, in fact, turned the occupied J&K state into the world’s largest jail and garrison.

The rally, through another resolution, called upon the international community especially the United Nations to immediately move for getting the special status of the disputed Jammu & Kashmir state restored – for onward early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with the UN resolutions.

It urged the world body to take immediate notice of history’s worst Indian act of state terrorism and aggression let loose against the innocent people in occupied Jammu Kashmir by forcibly revoking the special status of the disputed state.

Through another unanimously passed resolution, the rally called upon the world body – UNO, international human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and others to immediately move for ensuring the supply of food and medicines to save the lives of the house-detained people in occupied Jammu & Kashmir state in general and the Muslim-majority areas of the troubled valley in particular, the innocent Kashmiris were suffering since Indian sinister action of August 5, 2019.

The rally warned the international community through another resolution that since India was moving for committing the world’s largest phased massacre of the freedom-loving population of the Muslim-majority occupied Jammu Kashmir state, it was enjoined upon the United Nations and the United States like super powers, besides another civilized world to immediately move for keeping fascist Indian Prime Minister Modi to abstain from this act of state terrorism. “Otherwise entire world in general and South Asia, in particular, may suffer with the unending global war – that may turn into nuclear conflict”, it observed.