Sadiq Umrani expresses solidarity with Kashmiris on Black Day

QUETTA: Balochistan’s Senior Provincial Minister, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Central Committee member and parliamentary leader, and Provincial Minister for Irrigation Mir Muhammad Sadiq Umrani said in a statement on Black Day, 27 October, that the purpose of observing the day is to express solidarity with Kashmiri brothers and support their struggle for freedom.

Mir Muhammad Sadiq Umrani said that on 27 October 1947 India illegally occupied Kashmir and trampled the rights of the Kashmiri people. By observing this day as Black Day, he said, “we give the world the message that the people of Pakistan stand with their Kashmiri brothers”.

He said the PPP has supported the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination from the very beginning. Martyr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Martyr Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto always highlighted the Kashmir cause at the global level.

The provincial minister said the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would not go in vain. He said the day was not far when Kashmir would be free and the Kashmiri people would decide their own destiny.

He called on the United Nations and the world community to take notice of the Indian atrocities in Kashmir and play their role in securing the Kashmiri people their right to self-determination.