Kashmir Solidarity Day is celebrated today (Friday) to express the sincere support of the Pakistani nation for the fair struggle of the Kashmiri people for their inalienable right to self-determination under UN resolutions.
The day highlighted the worst repression India has carried out against Kashmir in Indian-occupied Jammu and illegally occupied Kashmir (IIOJ & K).
On this occasion, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will address public meetings in Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. One minute of silence is observed nationwide at 10:00.
Solidarity increases were held in Islamabad, Muzafarabad, Gilgit and at four provincial headquarters. The human chain is being set up at Kohala and other key points connecting Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.
A special program was broadcast to express solidarity with the oppressed Kashmir of the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India.
PUNJAB
In Punjab, several government departments hold rallies and meetings in Kashmir at the divisional, district and technical levels. Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar appealed to the public to take an active part in these rallies and gatherings.
He said the rallies would send a clear message to Modi’s government that Kashmir is part of Pakistan.
In the provincial capital, Lahore, political parties, large and small, as well as several social, academic and non-governmental organizations hold rallies and gatherings in Kashmir.
GILGIT-BALTISTAN
In Gilgit-Baltistan, protests took place in all regions of the three divisions to condemn state terrorism and the Modi government’s atrocities against Kashmir.
In Gilgit, major protest rallies started with Benazir Chowk, which turned into a public gathering in the city of Atihad Chowk en route through the main bazaar.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan said: Kashmir Solidarity Day is an identity of strong Pakistani-Kashmiri ties which have been witnessed with great enthusiasm and passion over the past decades, demonstrating religious, cultural and social identity and strength. Coordination between Pakistanis and Kashmir.
The chairman of the AJK said that the people of Kashmir linked their future to Pakistan before it existed, and we are proud of this historic decision because the Pakistani nation has never left Kashmir alone at a critical moment. He said Pakistanis and Kashmiris were involved.
He called on the United Nations and world powers to feel the plight of the people of Kashmir, who have been suppressed by Indian occupation forces for the past 73 years and allowed to lose their reign of terror in the IOC, and called for human attention. for violations of its rights and pressure on India to stop its abuses at the Chamber of Commerce and to pass UN resolutions in word and spirit.
He said India has not violated Kashmir’s wishes for decades, despite the fact that India has implemented harsh laws against unarmed Kashmiris that cannot prevent them from claiming their right to birth, their right to self-determination.
Masood said that lasting peace in the South Asian region is only possible if the long-standing Kashmir issue is resolved according to the wishes and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
AJK Prime Minister Raja Farouk Haider Khan said in a message: Pakistan’s emotional ties with Kashmiri brothers and sisters who live on the other side of the Line of Control (LOC) and have traditionally followed Solidarity Day in Kashmir with great enthusiasm.
He said that the phenomenon of Solidarity Day on February 5 was not only observed by Kashmiris on both sides of the LOC, but was also celebrated in Pakistan and around the world by the Kashmiri and Pakistani communities among other communities which was very hot and hot. passion.
Farouk Haider promised the Kashmiri people that 220 million Pakistanis, 4.5 million people from AJK and 2 million people from Gilgit-Baltistan are on their backs in their just fight for freedom, and said the Kashmiri brothers should not meet Feel alone and insure for the day. is not far away when you breathe in the free air.
