October 27, 2002	Sunday	Sha’aban 20,1423

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of the National Kashmir Committee, in his message marking the observation of Oct 27, said here on Saturday that it was the blackest day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir as it was a reminder of the period when Indian government occupied the state of Jammu and Kashmir by openly violating the resolutions of the United Nations through military occupation of the state.

In a message on the occasion of observing the Black Day of the military occupation of the state, he said that this step was an outcome of the conspiracy hatched by the British and the Congress.

He said that the conspiracy was aimed at frustrating the coming into existence of Pakistan. The step, he added, was taken under the notorious Radcliffe Award. While this step was tantamount to usurping the liberation of Kashmiris on one side, it was a deep-rooted conspiracy against the coming into existence of Pakistan, he said.

Sardar Qayyum further said that even the United Nations did not express any reaction against the Indian aggression.

He said that this attitude only indicated that it was an international conspiracy. After being frustrated by this action, he added, the people of Kashmir took up various steps to express their right to self-determination, and started a movement for freedom, which continued till to-date.

In 1989 the struggle for the liberation of Kashmir revived once again, he said, adding that the struggle for freedom was unique in the sense that even without any support from anywhere, the Kashmiris had launched struggle against a big power.

Sardar Qayyum further said that after rendering of sacrifices of 80,000 martyrs, the struggle had become a focal point for the entire world.

The oppression launched by the Indian army, economic package, fraudulent elections and offer of internal self-rule had not deterred the Kashmiris from the path they had been treading consistently over the last several years.

The chairman of the Kashmir National Committee said that even today Kashmiri people, through their forceful protest, kept on reminding the international community of the gravity of the oppression that they had been going through.

He said that the people of the Kashmir deserved congratulation for their unwavering steps with which they were moving toward their objective of freedom of Kashmir from the Indian yoke.