(Tokyo, August 5, 2021): An event was organized by Embassy of Pakistan, Tokyo to observe 5th August as Kashmir Siege Day (Youm-e-Istehsal). A large number of Pakistani community members and Kashmiri Diaspora attended the event.
Ambassador Imtiaz Ahmad read the messages of the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan which primarily emphasized on support and solidarity with Kashmiri people for realization of their legitimate right to self-determination.
The Ambassador in his key-note address remarked that this day marked the 2nd year of unprecedented, inhuman military siege and communication blockade since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019. It is a crime against humanity that has destroyed lives, crippled livelihoods, and imperiled the very identity of the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK). Eight million Kashmiris have been made prisoners in their own homes.
The Indian Government and its security forces, he said, have intensified their inhuman tactics and subjected the people of IIOJK to worst kind of human rights violations besides imposition of indefinite curfew, suspension of all cyber communication lines, custodial torture and deaths, use of pellet guns, extra judicial killings and random imprisonment of innocent people. However, despite turning Kashmir into a large prison, India has not been able to dampen the indomitable spirit of the freedom loving Kashmiri people.
Ambassador Ahmad also underscored the efforts of Pakistan to highlight India’s continued state-terrorism in IIOJK at various international forums. Subsequently, the UN Security Council on different occasions has taken up the issue for discussion keeping in view the prevailing horrendous situation in the area, thereby belying Indian claim that the dispute is India’s internal matter. The Ambassador concluded his remarks by reaffirming Government of Pakistan’s resolve to continue extending full political, diplomatic and moral support to the legitimate struggle of valiant Kashmiris for the right to self-determination as enshrined in numerous UNSC Resolutions.
A photographic exhibition was also organized by the Embassy to highlight the continuing torture and brutal repression carried out by the Indian Occupied forces in IIOJK.
Earlier, the members of the Pakistani community and Kashmiri Diaspora held a strong protest in front of the Indian Embassy to observe Youm-e-Istehsal and strongly agitate against the unprecedented gross human rights violations in IIOJK by Indian security forces.
Tokyo, PR#24/2021