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'We Stand With Kashmiris Against Illegal Occupation', Says Pakistan PM As He Provokes India

© AP Photo / Rahmat GulFILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020 file photo, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pakistani rights groups are criticizing Khan after he claimed in an online show on Sunday, April 4, 2021
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020 file photo, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pakistani rights groups are criticizing Khan after he claimed in an online show on Sunday, April 4, 2021 - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.07.2021
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Security forces in India are on high alert in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as separatist leaders have allegedly called for a shutdown on 13 July, known as Kashmir Martyrs' Day. The day commemorates the killing of 21 Kashmiris in 1931 by troops as thousands protested outside Srinagar jail against the imprisonment of an activist.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for the cause of a separatist movement in Indian-occupied Kashmir saying that his country stands with Kashmir in the "struggle of Kashmiris against tyranny and illegal Indian Occupation".
Internet services remained undisturbed in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on 13 July as Kashmiris on both side of the Line of Control (LOC) observed Kashmir Martyrs' Day. Last year, internet services had been suspended after separatist leaders called for a shutdown. 
On Sunday, the inspector-general of police in the Kashmir Zone said that surveillance had been heightened to ensure peace and added that internet services will not be disrupted.
​The Prime Minister of Pakistan was joined by the country's president, Dr Arif Alvi, who said: "The Kashmiri battle against illegal Indian occupation is just and selfless."
Martyrs' Day was not observed as an official state holiday by the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, or Ladakh for the second year in a row. The practice was officially stopped on 5 August 2019 in accordance with Article 370 of the Constitution when Jammu and Kashmir had its special status revoked. 
The day commemorates a protest against the rule of Maharaja Hari Singh in 1931 in what was then a princely state. On 13 July 1931, 21 Kashmiri men and women were shot dead as they gathered outside Srinagar central jail to protest against the arrest and subsequent trial of Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was an agitator against the Maharajah's Dogra rule.​
 
 
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