India has imposed an undeclared war on us: Azad Kashmir PM

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said on Sunday that India has imposed an undeclared war on the people of Kashmir.

The AJK premier was addressing an event in relation to the ‘Back Day’ being observed across the country today (Sunday). He said that the demand of the Kashmiris was the right to self-determination but it had not been given to them.

“India wants to create a divide between Azad Kashmir and occupied Kashmir,” he said. “However, according to the UN charter, the people of Kashmir have been given the right to vote for whomever they want to.”

Haider said that the people of Kashmir did not have any problem with religion. He said that their war was against illegal Indian occupation.

Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur also spoke on the occasion and said that the world was silent when it came to Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.

“Unfortunately, even Muslim countries around the world have not condemned Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir,” he said.

Black day observed for solidarity with Kashmiris

It was on this day in 1947, Indian troops invaded Jammu and Kashmir and occupied it in a blatant violation of the Partition Plan of the subcontinent and against the Kashmiris' aspirations.

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Several programmes including rallies and seminars held throughout the country to express solidarity with the people of occupied Kashmir.

In Azad Kashmir, rallies, demonstrations and protest gatherings were held in all small and big cities of the state under the auspices of Kashmir Liberation Cell, Huriayat and religious organisations.