Kashmiris to observe India’s Republic Day as Black Day tomorrow, Authorities flayed for harassing people in Kashmir

Srinagar, January 25 (KMS): Complete strike will be observed to mark the India’s Republic Day, as Black Day, tomorrow, to remind the international community that India’s claim of being a democratic republic was totally misleading as it had denied the people of Kashmir their inalienable right to self-determination.

Call for the observance of the Day has been given by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, the High Court Bar Association and other pro-liberation leaders and organisations.

On the other hand, the authorities have sounded a high alert across the Kashmir Valley and hundreds of troops and police personnel have virtually taken over the roads, lanes and by-lanes of Srinagar city and other towns. Random crackdowns are being carried out and commuters are subjected to vigorous screening in the territory. The deployment of army has been reinforced around the Bakhshi Staium, the main venue of official function.

The All Parties Hurriyet Conference and other liberation organisations have flayed occupation authorities for harassing people in the name of security measures. The forum patronised by the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement in Srinagar said that India had no legal or moral justification to celebrate its Republic Day in occupied Kashmir as it continued to usurp the democratic right of Kashmiris of deciding their fate by themselves.

Liberation leader, Javed Ahmad Mir in a statement urged the international human rights organisations to play their role in tracing out whereabouts of the youth subjected to enforced disappearance by the Indian army in the occupied territory. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association in a meeting in Srinagar reiterated that Kashmir was a disputed territory and people’s aspirations could not be suppressed by the authorities’ repression.