78-years Of Indian Illegal Occupation Of Kashmir: Japan-based Overseas Kashmiris To Mark October 27 As Black Day

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Oct, 2025) The Japan-based Kashmiri expatriates will observe 78 years of India's forced and unlawful occupation of disputed Jammu and Kashmir state as black day on October 27 through staged a mammoth protest demonstration in front of the United Nations office and the Indian Embassy in Tokyo.

Unveiling the scheduled protest program Shahid Majeed Advocate, Chairman of Japan-based Kashmir Solidarity Forum, while talking to APP over telephone from Tokyo said that the October 27 stood as the black day in the history of Jammu Kashmir state and most particularly in Kashmiris indigenous struggle for the freedom of their motherland from Indian illegal and forced occupation when, India landed its troops totally against the Kashmir's peoples 'wishes and aspirations who had already to attach their destiny with Pakistan, the Kashmiris ultimate destination, he added.

The KSF Chairman said that his organisation had with the collaboration of Japan-based Kashmiris political, social and religious organizations chalked out integrated protest programme to observe the day of October 27 as black day.

"October 27, 1947 is the darkest day in human history, when the Indian army landed in the darkness of night in Srinagar and started oppressing the Kashmiris, massacring people and forcibly occupying Kashmir and this process has not stopped yet. But the cruelty of the Indian army continues even today, so this day can never be forgotten", he said

The KSF Chairman said since that bleak day India had so far established an era of state terrorism in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir.

He declared that overseas Kashmiris living in any part of the world would not ever lag behind in expressing solidarity and sympathies with the suffering Kashmiri brothren of IIOJK in these hours of trial and their indigenous struggle for freedom of the homeland from Indian unlawful occupation.

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