October 28, 2007	Sunday	Shawwal 15, 1428

MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 27: Several demonstrations were held in different parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday to mark the Indian invasion of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 and in protest against the human rights violations in the held territory.

In Muzaffarabad, a procession, led by an AJK minister and adviser to AJK prime minister, was taken out from the local press club and the participants marched up to the office of the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan.

The participants handed over a memorandum to the UN officials.

The memorandum invited the attention of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon towards massive human rights abuses by Indian troops.

It called upon the world body to implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir in order to ensure a peaceful and lasting solution to the oldest problem on its agenda.

Earlier, a public meeting was held at the press club where speakers condemned India for unleashing a reign of terror in occupied Kashmir to suppress the popular freedom movement.

The presence of over 750,000 troops in Kashmir, they said, was a proof of the fact that the region was an occupied territory and not a part of the Indian union.