Overview
- President Asif Ali Zardari urged the United Nations to recognize the 1947 Jammu killings as genocide and to hold India accountable for alleged attempts to alter IIOJK’s demographic composition.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif paid homage to the victims, cited UN Security Council resolutions, and reaffirmed Pakistan’s political, diplomatic and moral support for Kashmiri self‑determination.
- Kashmiris across both sides of the Line of Control and in the diaspora observed Jammu Martyrs’ Day, with APHC leaders pledging to continue the movement and reports of tribute posters in IIOJK.
- Reports and commentary reiterate casualty estimates of over 200,000 Muslims killed and more than half a million displaced in 1947, describing organized attacks involving Dogra forces and allied militias.
- Opinion pieces tie the 2019 rollback of Article 370, subsequent domicile and land‑rule changes, and the 2022 delimitation to claims of demographic engineering, noting there is no UN genocide designation.