LAHORE, Aug 15: Various Kashmiri organizations observed the Indian independence day as a black day on Thursday in protest against the Indian repression in occupied Kashmir and atrocities on the Muslims.

A big rally was addressed by Kashmir Action Committee Pakistan president Dr Muzaffar Shah.

The rally adopted a resolution which condemned killing of over 82,000 Muslim men and dishonouring of more than 15,000 women besides burning of their properties by Indian army during the last 13 years.

It lamented the apathy of the world community towards the plight of the Kashmiris. The rally urged the UN, US and others to persuade India to desist from committing excesses against the Kashmiris.

The resolution said forthcoming election to the state assembly of occupied Kashmir was a farce and aimed at misleading the world that the people of Kashmir were willing to live with India and that normalcy had returned to Kashmir. Both these Indian claims were false, it claimed.

The election was not a substitute for the plebiscite which had been guaranteed by the UN through its resolutions. It demanded that the UN resolutions should be implemented to solve the Kashmir problem on permanent basis.