Kashmiris observe ‘black day’

Published October 28, 2002

SIALKOT, Oct 27: The Kashmiri people residing in Sialkot and Narowal districts observed a ‘black day’ on Sunday to condemn Indian invasion of Kashmir on Oct 27, 1947.

According to a press release, various protest meetings were held in Sialkot city, Cantonment, Bajwat, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Begowal, Ugooki, Pasrur, Chowinda, Badiana, Shakargarh, Zafarwal, Baddomali and Narowal.

The participants expressed a complete solidarity with the people of held Kashmir who have been fighting for their right to self-determination for the past 55 years.

Kashmiri leaders, including Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Forum central chairman Dr Zahid Ghani Dar, said the sacrifices of the innocent Kashmiris would not go waste, and the day was not far when they would achieve their goal.

They also expressed dismay over the indifference of the international community to the question of settling the Kashmiri issue.

INDIAN FIRING: Three more houses were damaged on Sunday as the Indian security forces continued intensified firing on Pakistani border villages in Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb, Joriyaan, Bajwat, Charwa, Jammu and Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sectors.

According to official sources, no injury or causality was reported.

THREE KILLED: Three persons, including a woman, were killed in separate road accidents in Daska tehsil here on Sunday.

Two friends — Waleed, 30, and Abdul Razzaq, 35 — were going to Sambrial when a bus crushed them. Razzaq died on the spot while Waleed sustained critical injuries and was admitted to the Daska THQ Civil Hospital.

On the Daska-Pasrur Road, a motorcyclist Maulvi Maskeen Ali was run over and killed by a bus.

A woman was killed in a collision between a van and a motorcycle rickshaw on the Daska-Sialkot Road.

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