LAHORE, Oct 27: Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan (retired) has urged the international community to help the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir by using its good offices to prevail upon India to hold plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.

The National Kashmir Committee member said in a statement on Sunday on the 55th anniversary of the Indian invasion of Kashmir that an exercise of right of self determination by the people of Kashmir through a plebiscite alone could restore peace in the valley and the region.

The former judge of the Supreme Court said that for the people of Kashmir Oct 27, 1947, was the blackest day when India had landed its troops at the Srinagar airport and had occupied the state.

He said that the Indian invasion had let loose a reign of terror in the occupied valley. The Indian army and para-military forces had killed about 300,000 Muslim Kashmiris in Jammu alone.

Raja said that he was an eyewitness to the massacre and burning alive of the Kashmiri Muslim men, women and children by Hindu Dogra force at Nowshera cantonment and severe bombardment of his nearby village Rajal.

The massacre and bombardment had forced about half a million Muslims population to migrate to Pakistan and most of them were waylaid.

He said that the Kashmiris want to exercise their right of self determination in accordance with the UN resolutions which had been accepted by the first Indian prime minister Pandat Jawahar Lal Nehru who had declared that India would honour its commitment wit the people of Kashmir and would never send its army to the valley. But he betrayed them, violated the UN resolutions and sent its three quarters of a million troops to the state to suppress their freedom struggle.