ANKARA, 26 October 2019: An event to mark the Kashmir Black Day on 27
October was held in Ankara today. Organized by the Anadolu Youth Association,
the event was attended by nearly hundred youth representatives from across
Turkey.
Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador
of Pakistan, Syrus Sajjad Qazi, said that millions of
Kashmiris across the globe were marking Black Day on 27 October. On that day in
1947, the overwhelmingly Muslim majority state of Jammu & Kashmir was
forcibly occupied by India, against the wishes and aspiration of the Kashmiris.
This illegal aggression, he added, resulted not only in one of the worst human
rights situations of recent times in the Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir but
also gave birth to a protracted dispute that continued to threaten regional and
international peace and security.
Ambassador Qazi underlined that India continued to
blatantly violate the relevant UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu &
Kashmir that guaranteed the Kashmiris their inalienable right to
self-determination. He added that India’s illegal and unilateral steps of
5 August 2019, yet again, were in direct contravention of these
resolutions, and were hence condemnable in the strongest possible terms.
He also expressed deep concern at the prevailing human
rights and humanitarian situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, as
well as at the rising tide of right-wing Hindu extremism and Islamophobia in
Ambassador Qazi expressed deep gratitude for the
people and the government of Turkey for their consistent, principled and just
support for the resolution of the Jammu & Kashmir dispute. He also thanked
the members of the Anadolu Youth Association for highlighting the issue as well
as for raising their voice in support of the oppressed Kashmiris.
He emphasized that the international community too
must fulfil its moral responsibility by ending the ongoing Indian atrocities in
Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, and by allowing Kashmiris their right to
self-determination.
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