Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: Panelists at a seminar organized by Jammu and Kashmir Unity Foundation (JKUF) today expressed a unanimous view that the war started by Pakistan on Oct 22, 1947 continues in new forms. They said the war from inside the State has to be defeated in order to defeat the possibility of war from outside by Pakistan.
The panelists lamented that the most radical indoctrination of the youth particularly in Kashmir valley continues and the infrastructure of indoctrination is flourishing in the State. This infrastructure has got nourishment from various policies pursued in the name of creating peace in the State as well as from the educational system infiltrated by the Wahabi/Salafi Islamists.
The seminar “22nd October 1947-Pakistan Invasion Not a Tribal Raid” was organized by J&K Unity Foundation to remember the first invasion of Indian territories in Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistani Army on October 22, 1947. The day is observed as Black Day by the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Yuvraj Gupta, a veteran POJK refugee leader, Dr Ajay Chrungoo – Chairman Panun Kashmir, Mohd Tariq president Jiyo Aur Jeene Do, Ankur Sharma, Advocate, Engineer Ghulam Ali Khatana, prominent Gujjar leader, Ajaat Jamwal, president J&K Unity Foundation spoke on the occasion.
The deliberations of the programme started with offering of tributes to the victims of Pakistani invasion in 1947. The participants observed a two minute silence in the memory of all the citizens of India who lost their lives during the invasion of Jammu and Kashmir.
The participants in the seminar resolved to stand up as one Nation and one people to defeat Pakistan’s subversive religious war in Jammu and Kashmir. They urged Govt of India to give more teeth and power to the Nation’s resolve to liberate Pak Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
” We urge the Global community to declare Pakistan as a terrorist State and force it to end human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan,” they maintained.
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