On October 22, Voice for Peace and Justice, a Kashmiri non-political youth organization, observed a “black day” in Srinagar to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Pakistani army-supported tribal invasion of the Kashmir Valley on that date in 1947. Pakistan lost the war with Jammu and Kashmir because it opposed the state’s accession to a secular India, whereas the people of Jammu and Kashmir wanted to remain an independent Muslim state. In order to undermine the secular peace and advance the two-nation theory, Pakistan was also concerned about the overall secular credentials of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Farooq Ganderbali, President of Voice for Peace and Justice said “On 22 October 1947, Pakistanis sent Invaders to Jammu and Kashmir. They looted the dignity of our mothers and sisters and took away everything. People were killed. My non-Muslim brothers were killed. Today the youth of Kashmir have come here. Today we all are together celebrating Black Day on 22nd October. Its purpose is that we want to tell the world that Pakistan has always shed blood in Kashmir for its own purposes.”
