Youm-e-Istehsal: Kashmiris Stage Protest at Burhan Wani Chowk

Mon Aug 05 2024
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SRINAGAR: A protest demonstration is being held in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to denounce India’s fraudulent action of 5th August 2019. The protest demonstration has been organized by the Jammu and Kashmir refugees. The aim of the rally is to register their strong protest and defiance against Indian government’s unlawful and fraudulent action taken on this day in 2019. The protest rally is currently passing from the Central Press Club at Burhan Wani Chowk. A protestor say that they want to observe August 5, 2019, as Youm-e-Istehsal-Kashmir to strongly reject Indian occupation in the occupied Kashmir. Thousands of people are attending the protest rally under the leadership of Muhammad Sidique.  The protestors will proceed in the form of a rally from Burhan Wani Chowk to Domail Bridge, where a memorandum will be presented to the UN observers.

Kashmiris, Protest, Burhan Wani Chowk

Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC), in Pakistan and worldwide are observing today, the 5th August, as Youm-e-Istehsal-e-Kashmir to register their strong protest and defiance against Indian government’s unlawful and fraudulent action taken on this day in 2019.

The day is being marked as a Black Day in Occupied Kashmir while the people in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan and the Kashmiri diaspora are staging protest demonstrations, seminars, rallies, and other programs in capital cities of the world to draw the attention of the world towards the grim situation in Occupied Kashmir due to unprecedented repression unleashed by Indian forces in the territory.

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According to media reports, India in gross violation of the United Nations resolutions and global law, directly repealed the special status of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and imposed unprecedented military and police siege in the occupied territory on this day in 2019.

In their messages on Youm-e-Istehsal, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and forces chiefs have reaffirmed their steadfast solidarity with brave and resilient people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

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