Demonstrations across UK, Europe mark Kashmir ‘Black Day’

LONDON – Kashmiris, Pakistanis and their allies held demonstrations  outside Indian missions in the UK and Europe to mark 76 years of illegal Indian occupation of Kashmir.

Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK led the protests and digital campaign across the region, reminding the international community to wake up to realities of the time.

The pan-Europe Kashmiri advocacy group said protestors raised pro-Kashmir and pro-freedom slogans outside the Indian missions to send a message across that “no military might of India can suppress Kashmiris from getting their birth right.”

It was on Oct. 27 in 1947 that India flew its murderous occupying forces to Srinagar and Illegally occupied the UN-designated disputed region.

Fahim Kayani, leader of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK, told a demonstration in Oslo: “this is the right time that the UN, and the international community open eyes and get Kashmiris their rights i.e. a free and fair plebiscite.”

Warning against delay in implementing UN resolutions on Kashmir, Kayani said: “what is happening in Gaza today is result of same delay tactics in upholding international law and UN Charter on Palestine.”

Addressing demonstration outside Indian mission in Oslo, Kayani said: “Nazi-inspired Hindutva regime in New Delhi has gone rogue and is committing crimes against humanity in western capitals. The western capitals must wake up early to the threat India poses to them and their citizens.”

“I fear if the case of Kashmir is delayed like this, it will invite a nuclear crisis,” said Kayani, urging immediate attention to worsening rights situation in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Responding to the call of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK, demonstrations were held in Glasgow, Dundee, Nelson, Birmingham, Como ,Luton and Manchester.

Shah Hussain, president Tehreek-e-Kashmir Norway and Rafqat Ali Sec Gen TeK Norway led protest in Oslo.

Tehreek-e-Kashmir leadership Muhammad Hanif Raja , Shah Hussain , Rafaqat Ali , Chaudhary Fakhr Iqbal Sahib, Chaudhary Yasin, Chaudhary Ikram ul Haque, Chaudhary Nasr Iqbal, Chaudhary Muhammad Ramzan , Syed Tufail Hussain Shah , Shaukat Sultan and Chaudhary Nasr Iqbal , led protests in their respective cities and towns.