Recalling the supreme sacrifices of July 13th, 1931 martyrs, speakers at a Webinar hosted by Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) have said that the valiant struggle of Kashmiris against despotic Dogra Maharaja was a corner stone of the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination.According to Kashmir Media Service, the webinar titled “Kashmir Martyrs Day:Remember the martyrs of July 13, 1931” was attended and addressed by noted human rights activists, academicians, writers and political leaders hailing from both sides of the Line of Control including Shah Ghulam Qadir, President Pakistan Muslim League AJK chapter; Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Opposition Leader AJK Assembly; Abdur Rasheed Turabi, former Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami AJK;Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Sardar Hassan Ibrahim,Syed Ali Raza, Raja Najabat, Zaffar Qureshi, Ershad Mahmud, Syed Arif Bahar,and Raja Sajad Latief. The event was moderated by the KIIR Chairman, Altaf Hussain Wani.

Panelists while paying eulogizing tributes to martyrs reiterated that struggle in Kashmir would continue till the goal is achieved. Paying tributes to Kashmiri martyrs who were gunned down by soldiers of Dogra Maharaja on 13 July 1931,they said, by sacrificing their precious lives these martyrs had laid foundation of
the rights movement going on in Kashmir. “The current struggle in Kashmir is an extension of the movement, which was launched against despotic Maharaja.From 1931 till date more than half a million Kashmiris have offered sacrifices to achieve the cherished goal,” they said.Terming the right to self-determination as the only acceptable solution of the Kashmir dispute to the Kashmiris, the speakers made it clear that no piece of legislation by the Indian parliament can change the disputed status of Jammu
and Kashmir. Rejecting the actions Modi government had taken on Kashmir since 5th August 2019, they said, “Kashmir is an internationally recognised disputed territory that needs to be settled in accordance with the universally accepted principle of right to self-determination”.

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