Kashmiris observing right to self-determination day today
Last updated on: 05 January,2021 12:09 pm
Adequate preparations have been made in Azad Jammu Kashmir to observe the day.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over are observing the Right to Self-Determination Day on Tuesday, with a renewed pledge to continue their liberation struggle till it reaches its ultimate goal.
It was on 5th January in 1949 when the UN Security Council passed a resolution supporting the Kashmiris’ right to decide their future by themselves through UN-sponsored plebiscite.
The day will be marked by various activities, including rallies, seminars and conferences across the world to remind the UN that it must implement its relevant resolutions to settle the Kashmir dispute and save Kashmiris from the Indian brutalities.
This year the right of self determination day is being observed when India, by openly violating and denying all international norms and commitments, abrogated the special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed state of the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir through scrapping article 370 and 35-A of her own constitution since here August 05, 2019 sinister act by turning entire Indian held Kashmir valley in to world’s largest prison through imprisoning entire innocent population in the bleeding valley into their houses and imposing indefinite curfew and information blockade since above bleak day of the history of the disputed Himalayan state.
Addressing the scheduled “Right to Self Determination” day rallies, speakers would reiterate Kashmiris just and principled stance before the world that they (Jammu Kashmir people) would continue their struggle for right of self determination till the achievement of the ultimate goal. They would particularly highlight the reality with the earnest demand about early grant of the birth right of self determination to Kashmiris without further delay and which was being denied by India since over last 72 years because of her traditional hostile and stubborn attitude.
The right of self determination day reiterates the long cherished demand of the Kashmiris that they should be granted their birth right to decide about their destiny under the spirit of the internationally-acknowledged U.N resolutions.
“It would be once again declared by the Kashmiris before the world, through the special day long special meetings at both sides of the line of control and rest of the world that the Kashmir problem should be resolved only in accordance with the United Nations resolutions – and no solution of the lingering global dispute sans the aspirations of the Kashmiris would be acceptable to them (Jammu Kashmir people)”, said visiting Chairman of UK-based Global Pakistan Kashmir Council (GPKSC) Raja Sikader Khan one of the major organizers engaged in hosting a special ceremony on January 5 to observe the day in Mirpur in a befitting manner.