Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control, Pakistan and all over the world are observing Accession to Pakistan Day today with a renewed pledge to continue the struggle for freedom from Indian occupation and the complete merger of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan. An analytical report released by Kashmir Media Service on this day revealed that about 500,000 Kashmiris have laid down their lives for Jammu and Kashmir’s freedom from Indian occupation and its accession to Pakistan during the past seven decades.

It said the worst kinds of Indian brutalities have failed to wipe out the Kashmiris’ love for Pakistan. The report said Indian troops in their continued acts of state terrorism martyred over 96,093 Kashmiris, including 7,245 in custody and fake encounters, since January 1989.

The troops subjected over 8,000 Kashmiri youth to custodial disappearance, molested and disgraced over 11,255 women and destroyed as many as 110,486 houses and structures while thousands of APHC leader, activists, youth, civil society including APHC chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, Mushtaqul Islam, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Muzafar Ahmad Dar, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Eng Rashid, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Yusuf Falahi, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Dr Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Muhammad Shafi (Khan)Sharitee, Showket Hakeem, Merajidin Nanda, Waheed Ahmad Gojri, Mehmood Toopewali, Feroz Adil Zargar, Dawood Zargar, human rights activists, Khurram Parviaz and Muhammad Ahsan Untoo and journalists Aasif Sultan and Fahad Shah had been languishing in different jails of India and the territory under black law, Public Safety Act and UAPA.However, the report added, these atrocities have not been able to force the Kashmiri people to give up their struggle for the cherished goal.

The report, while giving the background of the Accession to Pakistan Day, says that it was on July 19, 1947, when the destiny of Kashmir was ascertained through a historical Accession to Pakistan Day resolution adopted by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference at Abi Guzar in Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan.

The convention was presided over by Chaudhry Hamid Ullah Khan, and the resolution was presented by Khawaja Ghulam-ud-Din Wani and Abdul Rahim Wani, with 59 prominent leaders in attendance. The historical resolution of July 19, 1947, calls for the accession of J & K to Pakistan, considering its religious, cultural, and geographical proximity to Pakistan and the aspirations of the Kashmiri Muslims.

The resolution was unanimously adopted on July 19, 1947, showing a political and constitutional stance. It indicated that existing religious, geographical, cultural, and economic ties and the aspirations of millions of Kashmiri Muslims warrant the accession of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) to Pakistan.

During the partition of the sub-continent, the people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which comprised a Muslim majority, decided to join Pakistan according to the British-led formula. However, Dogra Raja, Sir Hari Singh, a Hindu who ruled over Jammu and Kashmir in collusion with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Governor General Lord Mountbatten, joined India.

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