By Sameen Afshain

‘Youm-e-Istehsal,’ a day of solidarity is observed each year across Pakistan and around the world to mark the one year anniversary of India stripping Jammu & Kashmir of its autonomy on 5 August 2019, and converting it into two federally-administered territories.
On the anniversary of lost autonomy, many parts of India, especially, Jammu & Kashmir saw heavy deployment of troops and barricades of barbed wire. Seets in the Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar were deserted, with armed paramilitary and police manning roadblocks to enforce a lockdown that was initially imposed on Tuesday to prevent any violent protests.
Kashmiris are demanding their right to self-determination through free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations as per the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions but India is not ready to fulfill its obligations.
The UN Security Council adopted several resolutions in 1948 and in the 1950s on the pending dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu & Kashmir which binds that a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of mostly Muslim Kashmir while the other resolution calls upon both sides to “refrain from making any statements and from doing or causing to be done or permitting any acts which might aggravate the situation.”
Today, The posters called upon the Kashmiri people to hoist black flags to show their resentment against the Indian illegal occupation. The Kashmiris have also been appealed to continue their peaceful struggle for their inalienable right to self-determination till the accomplishment of the mission of their martyrs.
Over 900,000 Indian occupation forces have turned Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir into a prison. Yet, State Citizens and their indigenous Kashmiri movement has paralysed India attempt to subdue Kashmiris. It is high time that United Nations Organization must force India to stop genocide of original inhabitants of Kashmir and implement UNSC resolutions for peaceful settlement of long pending Jammu & Kashmir issue.