JKNF extends his heartfelt felicitations to the people of Pakistan on their Independence Day.

 Senior vice chairman Jammu and Kashmir National Front (JKNF) and prominent APHC leader Altaf Hussain Wani has extended his heartfelt felicitations to the people and the government of Pakistan on their Independence Day.

In a statement issued on the eve of the Day, Mr. Wani said, “The struggling people of Jammu and Kashmir owe a debt of gratitude to the people as well as the respective governments of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for their all out moral, political and diplomatic support to our just and legitimate struggle for right to self-determination”. Conveying his best wishes for peace, strength, stability, progress and prosperity of Pakistan, the National Front leader said that a strong and stable Pakistan was guarantor for the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

He expressed the optimism that the incumbent government would leave no stone upturned to help struggling people of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir to seek their internationally recognized right, the right to self determination for which they have offered unprecedented sacrifices. Terming Kashmir issue as an unfinished agenda of the partition of the Indian subcontinent, Wani said that the dream of a vibrant, stable and prosperous Pakistan would remain elusive unless Kashmir was freed from the Indian bondage.

Meanwhile, appealing people to observe August 15 as “Black Day”, National Front spokesperson Shafiq-ur-Rehman urged the people of Kashmir to observe India’s Independence Day as Black Day as a mark of protest against India’s forcible occupation of Kashmir. Terming India as usurper, he said that the country that has deprived millions of Kashmiris from their fundamental rights and snatched their freedom by occupying their motherland has no justification, whatsoever, to observe Independence Day. He said that forced annexation of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir last year by the Modi’s fascist regime has yet again underlined India’s neo-colonialism, authoritarian and pro-fascist inclinations.