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Kashmiris to observe

Black Day on Indian

republic day

MUZAFFARABAD: AJK Legislative Assembly Speaker Ch Abdul Majid has strongly denounced inhuman acts of Indian troops deployed in occupied Kashmir to cruch the will of valiant struggling Kashmiris.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he said: "India is celebrating its Republic Day on Wednesday January 26, but Kashmiris living both sides of the LoC, Pakistan and abroad will observe this day as a "Black Day" in order to draw world attention towards the inhuman acts and black laws prevailed in occupied territory".

He said on this occasion seminars and protest rallies will be arranged by various political, religious and other social organisations and protest memorandums will be handed over to the UN observers missions.

Majid strongly condemned Indian negative propaganda against Pakistan and Kashmiris in order to get them declared as the "terrorists and terrorist state" but India will not succeed in its evil and nefarious designs and conspiracies being hatched in defaming and damaging the ongoing freedom struggle in occupied Kashmir.

While commenting on the CTBT issue, he said, "We should evolve a national consensus on this issue and federal government should convene all the parties in Pakistan and AJK in order to develop a strategy and national consensus on this important national issue".

He said within the changing scenario our present military set up in Pakistan was capable to deal with and resolve this important national issue with expertise and prudence, he added.

Majid assured the AJK prime minister that all the decisions taken regarding the austerity measures in AJK would be voluntarily implemented in its true spirit.

He requested the government that the changes being brought by it shoud be amended through legislation. Majid said, "We hail the accountability process and decisions being taken by the AJK government to run the administration in order to give the AJK masses good governance and speedy justice". He expressed full confidence in the leadership of Sultan Mahmood.

The speaker dispelled the impression being given by some elements that there was grouping among the party ranks and added they will not be succeeded in their ugly designs.

The AJK speaker lauded the Kashmir policy of Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf and said his clear-cut and unequivocal stand on Kashmir has boosted up the morale of struggling Kashmiris.

He said the Kashmir issue is the burning issue of South Asia which should be resolved according to the wishes of Kashmiri people peacefully as envisaged in the UN Security Council resolutions which, he said, if remained unresolved could trigger atomic war in the region.

He strongly condemned the illegal and immoral detentions of APHC leadership in notorious Jodhpur jail. He called upon the human rights organisations to come forward for the rescue of ailing APHC leaders Syed Ali Shah Gilani, Mohammad Yasin Malik and others and ensure their immediate release from the Indian jails.ÑAPP