Anti-India rally held in Islamabad on Burhan Wani’s martyrdom anniversary

ISLAMABAD (INP): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Pakistan Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Commission of AJK government organized a rally in Islamabad, today, on the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of popular Kashmiri youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani.
The rally held outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was led by APHC-AJK General Secretary Sheikh Abdul Mateen and AJK minister Javed Ahmed Butt. The participants carrying placards, posters and banners with the picture of Burhan Wani raised high-pitched slogans against India and in favour of Kashmir’s freedom from the Indian illegal occupation.
Addressing on the occasion, the speakers said that Burhan Wani not only shook the edifice of more than decades-old Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir but also gave a new spark to the Kashmir freedom movement. They said that the participation of tens of thousands of people in his funeral prayers was a manifestation of the Kashmiris’ love and affection for him and hatred against India.
The speakers said that the martyrdom of Burhan Muzaffar Wani on July 08, 2019, had triggered mass uprising in IIOJK, showing the indigenous character of the Kashmir freedom movement. They said during this popular agitation, Indian soldiers killed more than 150 Kashmiris and blinded hundreds of others with pellets. They said the Indian troops have been subjecting the people of the occupied territory to the worst atrocities for the past over seven decades but the morale of Kashmiris is high and they are determined to continue their struggle till the mission of Burhan Wani and other martyrs is accomplished.
The speakers expressed concern over the plight of illegally detained APHC leaders, activists and ordinary Kashmiris and demanded their immediate release. They appealed to the international community to take cognizance of the Indian state terrorism in IIOJK and impress upon New Delhi to resolve the Kashmir dispute by giving the Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
The speakers included Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Javed Butt, Director of Liberation Commission Raja Khan Afsar Khan, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Imtiaz Wani, Sardar Najeebul Ghafoor Khan, Mushtaq Butt, Manzoor Shah, Gulshan Ahmed, Rafiq Dar, Saleem Haroon, Bashir Usmani, Majid Sharif, Raja Asif and Sardar Azim Sarwar.