To express solidarity with the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the Embassy of Pakistan in France organized a special event marking Youm-e-Istehsal, today.
Messages of the President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan were read out on the occasion, focusing on the origin of the Kashmir dispute, and the Indian suppression of the people of IIOJK.
Speaking on the occasion Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that six years ago, India took a set of illegal and unilateral actions on 5 August 2019 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by scrapping IIOJK’s special status and ending the last remaining semblance of autonomy. India took these measures to further consolidate its control over IIOJK; undermining its internationally-recognized disputed status; and to convert Kashmiris into a dispossessed and disempowered minority in their own land.
The Jammu & Kashmir dispute is our national cause and the main pillar of Pakistan’s foreign policy. Pakistan will therefore continue to call upon the international community to hold India accountable for its crimes in IIOJK.
Prominent speakers while condemning India’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019 as blatant violations of UNSC resolutions and international law the speakers demanded that the same must be reversed by the Indian Government. They denounced Indian efforts to alter the demographic composition of the occupied territory by issuance of domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris, introduction of new laws on ownership of land and redrawing electoral constituencies in IIOJK converting Kashmiris as a minority in their own land.
A large number of people representing Pakistani diaspora, academics, journalists, students and professionals participated in the event that highlighted the seven decades long legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for their right to self-determination in accordance with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir.
