BEIJING: Pakistan Embassy in Beijing has arranged a special event to commemorate 27 October as the Kashmir Black Day, local media reported on Monday.
Messages from Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar were read on the occasion to recall 27 Oct. 1947 as the day when India landed its occupation forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK).
The messages have strongly denounced the Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir, reiterated Islamabad’s unwavering resolve to the people of Kashmir and underscored the need for a just and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the UNSC resolutions.
On his part, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Khalil Hashmi has highlighted the grave and gross human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and continued incarceration of Kashmiri leadership.
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The envoy also rejected the so-called recent polls in Occupied Kashmir as farce, as they could not be a substitute to a UN backed plebiscite in IIOJK. The envoy called upon the world to play its due role for the implementation of the UNSC resolutions, which permit the Kashmiri people to exercise their right to self-determination.
On the occasion, a documentary was screened at the event, along with a photo exhibition in order to highlight the sufferings as well as miseries inflicted upon the people of Kashmir by the Indian occupation forces.