According to the report of Baaghi TV, Prime Minister Imran has paid homage to the eternal sacrifices of the martyrs of Kashmir.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he salutes the struggle of Kashmiris against Indian occupation. India has illegally and cruelly occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The martyrs of July 13, 1931 were the ancestors of today’s independence movement. Kashmiris are making sacrifices for the sake of independence from generation to generation.
Prime Minister Imran Khan further said that Kashmiris were struggling against the Hindutva government’s conspiracy to destroy their identity. Pakistan has always supported the right of Kashmiris to self-determination. We will continue to support the independence movement till the independence of occupied Kashmir. The day is not far when India’s illegal occupation will end.
Today, on Yaum-e-Shuhada-e-Kashmir, we salute Kashmiris for their continued struggle against the illegal & barbaric Indian occupation of Jammu & Kashmir. The Shuhada of 13 July 1931 were the forefathers of today's Kashmiri resistance.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) July 13, 2020
Prime Minister Imran Khan further said that the martyrs revived the struggle for the right to self-determination.
It should be noted that for the first time in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, no official function is held on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day on July 13. Nor was a holiday is declared today day.
On the July 31, 1931, the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22 Kashmiris, one after the other, outside the Central Jail in Srinagar during the court proceedings against one Abdul Qadeer who had asked the Kashmiri people to defy the Dogra rule.
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The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that on July 13,1931, when it was time for Namaz-e-Zuhr, a young man, started the call for prayer (Azaan) but was shot dead by the Maharaja’s soldiers.
Thus, 22 youth sacrificed their lives till the completion of Azaan, Radio Pakistan reported.
The spokesman said the aim of the strike call is to stress the urgent need for a peaceful and just solution to the Kashmir dispute and to end the cycle of oppression against the Hurriyat leaders and the Kashmiri people.
He also appealed for a march towards the Mazar-e-Shuhada, Naqshband Sahib in Srinagar on the day where the martyrs of 1931 are buried.
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