JRL Calls For Shutdown In IOK On January 26

The Joint Resistance Leadership has urged the Kashmiri people to observe complete shutdown on Indian Republic Day, the 26th January, to mark the day as Black Day to remind the world that India's continued denial of right to self-determination to the Kashmiris is contrary to its claim of being a democratic republic

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jan, 2019 ) :The Joint Resistance Leadership has urged the Kashmiri people to observe complete shutdown on Indian Republic Day, the 26th January, to mark the day as Black Day to remind the world that India's continued denial of right to self-determination to the Kashmiris is contrary to its claim of being a democratic republic.

According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS) , the JRL comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a statement issued in Srinagar said that for past 71 years the people of Jammu and Kashmir had been demanding their right to self-determination promised to them by the Indian leaders not only in the United Nations or the Indian Parliament but also at Srinagar's Lal Chowk. However, till this day not only has that commitment remained unfulfilled but those who remind them of it are rewarded with bullets and pellets and are incarcerated and gagged, it deplored.

The JRL said that a nation that prides itself on being a representative democracy chosen by the free will of its people, a republic, is executing tyranny and suppression to forcibly impose its will over the people of Kashmir.

"Lacs of armed personnel are deployed to suppress the aspirations of people and draconian laws like AFSPA and PSA are invoked to ensure people's sentiments do not get out of hand," it said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and senior APHC leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, have paid glowing tributes to youth martyred by Indian troops in Budgam and Shopian areas.

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, said that the lingering Kashmir dispute was the main cause of bloodshed in occupied Kashmir.

Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in his statement paid homage to the martyred youth. He said that the Kashmiri youth were nourishing their freedom struggle with their blood. He said that India despite resorting to the worst kind of state terrorism in occupied Kashmir had failed to intimidate the Kashmiris into submission and they were determined to take their struggle for securing their right to self-determination to its logical conclusion, despite all odds.