Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Thursday a new campaign aimed to portray the ground realities in occupied Kashmir would kick off from January 25.
Addressing a press conference at the Foreign Office, Qureshi said the seven-to-eight-day programme was designed by Prime Minister Imran Khan. “From January 25 we will launch a campaign on the print, electronic, and social media, aiming to highlight these issues locally and internationally,” Qureshi said.
“On January 27, there will be a cultural show focusing indeed, on Kashmir , at the National College of Arts, Islamabad,” he added. “Photo exhibitions will take place in major art galleries [across Pakistan], showing Kashmir’s struggle, the pellet-gun victims, the homeless, and the mujahideen (martyrs), and a pictorial presentation of them will take place on January 28.”
“On January 30, a seminar will be held in the capital that will be headed by our Kashmir committee chairperson Fakhar Imam to highlight the issue. On January 31, Imam and other members of his committee will hold a press conference here,” he noted
“On February 3, in convention centre, our youth, our future will interact with us and we will put before them the ground realities of Kashmir,” he expressed, adding that “we will distribute the ration bags in the refugee camps” in Azad Kashmir on the same day.
‘Thank Pakistani diaspora for great support’
“Kashmir Day event will be arranged on February 4 at the President House and we will call upon the diplomatic core and will present documentaries before them. For February 5, we have several activities planned, a human chain in AJK to give a message across the line of control to the Kashmiris there that they are not alone, we stand with them,” he expressed.
“Kashmir rallies will also be held and we urge the chief ministers of all provinces to lead the rallies in their respective provinces. “Prime Minister Imran Khan, on the same day, will go to AJK’s legislative assembly and will address over there in Muzaffarabad and, in the evening, he will also address a public gathering in Mirpur,” he noted.
“A media campaign and slogans have also been prepared for the campaign,” he said. “I would like to thank the Pakistani diaspora for their great support to our foreign missions, they arranged massive rallies in London, New York, and Toronto.
“We have directed all the missions to organise a reception where activists of the Pakistani community and the Kashmiris will be invited and they will informed about our stance and ground realities of Kashmir.” “We have also asked President and Prime Minister of AJK to write letters to the heads of state and inform them about the situation and ask them to intervene so that the imposed restrictions may be lifted in Kashmir,” he said.
“After that, we request people to arrange on February 5 in their districts rallies and we also urge the educational institutions to arrange events so that youth becomes aware,” he expressed.
