The All Parties Hurriyat Conference today urged the people in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to observe Youm-e-Istehsal-e-Kashmir as a Black Day on August 5.

According to Kashmir Media Service, on August 5, 2019, the Hindutva-inspired Indian government revoked Article 370, which granted special status to the internationally recognized disputed territory, and imposed a brutal military and police siege.

APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rahid Minhas made the appeal in a statement in Srinagar, urging people, shopkeepers, transporters, advocates, Ulemas, employees, and Kashmiris at home and worldwide to observe August 5 as ‘Youm-e-Istehsal-e-Kashmir.’ The statement said that the masses of Jammu and Kashmir demand the reversal of actions taken on August 5, 2019, resolution of the Kashmir dispute as per United Nations resolutions, release of all political detainees, and an end to human rights violations by India in IIOJK.

APHC stated that on October 27, 1947, India invaded Jammu and Kashmir and illegally occupied it against the will of the Kashmiri people. On August 5, 2019, it repealed its special status and merged the territory with India in violaton of the UN resolutions on Kashmir.