Altaf Hamid Rao.
Mirpur (AJK)
Amidst full-throat Zindabad slogans for Pakistan including ‘Hearts of Pakistan and Kashmir Beat In Unison’, ‘Kashmir Baney Gaa Pakistan’, ‘Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan’, a mammoth ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ rally was staged under the auspices of the private and public representative organizations of all segments of the civil society here on Friday to mark the enthusiastic Kashmir Solidarity Day observed on the call of Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan in this city of Kashmiri expatriates.
In response to the call given by government of Pakistan to observe Kashmir Solidarity Day, thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the city streets to express full solidarity and sympathies with the freedom-loving brethren of the turbulent and curfew-clamped Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir state.
‘Kashmir Hour’ was marked simultaneously with the nation-wide program to express solidarity with the people of occupied Jammu Kashmir blowing sirens and playing national anthems of Pakistan and AJK – besides complete halting of vehicular traffic on the road as a mark of respect and solidarity with the freedom-loving muslim brethren of Indian occupied Kashmir.
India has imposed indefinite curfew in entire occupied Jammu Kashmir state since past 26 days besieging the innocent population into their houses at gun point of her over a million Indian occupying troops – with nefarious designs to curb their voice against her (New Delhi) recent sinister move of revoking special status of the disputed Himalayan State.
Through various unanimously-passed resolutions, the rally warned India to immediately restore the special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed occupied Jammu & Kashmir and move for early peaceful solution of Kashmir issue under the spirit of the UN resolutions to avert rising threat of nuclear conflict in the region.
The resolution declared that the people of Jammu & Kashmir were rendering unprecedented sacrifices since last 72 years to achieve the goal of freedom of the occupied Jammu & Kashmir from the Indian yoke and to decide about their destiny through free and fair plebiscite under the spirit of the international norms and commitments.
The rally expressed grave concern over the fast-deteriorating conditions of the people in strife-torn and fully-locked indefinite curfew-riddled Indian held Jammu and Kashmir since past 10 days. India, it said, has litterly turned the occupied J&K state into the world’s largest prison and the garrison. India, it continued was trying to push the entire region into sever unrest and tension by revoking the special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed Jammu Kashmir state.
