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Amraiz Khan
Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that Pakistan is officially celebrating Palestine solidarity day today on the directions of PM Imran Khan to show the world that 220 million people are firmly standing with the oppressed people of Palestine.
She said this while talking to the media on the occasion of a solidarity walk organized under the aegis of district administration for showing support to the Palestinian people at Liberty Chowk here on Friday.
DC Lahore Mudassar Riaz Malik and people
from different walks of life also attended the rally in large numbers.
Talking to the media, Dr Firdous strongly condemned the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians and said that the 220 million people of Pakistan are siding with the Palestinian brethren.
Israel is the biggest terrorist in the world and it is incumbent
upon the UN and international community to stop Israel from atrocities against the Palestinians, she added.
The Special Assistant condemned the continuous silence of western media and said that Israel destroyed the building housing the media outlets offices in Gaza but international media intentionally ignored this act aimed at silencing the war crimes.
The international media also ignored the worst conditions in which Palestinians are forced to live under constant threat and fear. The world bodies should come forward to heal the wounds of the Palestinians, she said.
It is however satisfying that PM Imran Khan has raised a strong voice against Israeli cruelties.
Imran Khan has emerged as a benefactor of humanity and today’s gathering is a message to the world that Palestinians are not alone and the government of
Pakistan will continue to support their just cause at every forum.
The SACM announced sending medicines through a doctor’s forum and asked the medical fraternity to come forward and contact the government so that medical teams could be dispatched to Palestine for providing medical assistance to the people.
The people of Palestine and the unarmed Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir are continuing their struggle through peaceful means, she said.
Later, the SACM attended a presser along with Provincial Minister for Agriculture Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi at 90 SQA.
Talking on the occasion, Dr Firdous said the commitment of PM Imran Khan is to develop the agriculture sector according to the modern needs.
Punjab is the food basket of the country and majority of the population is linked with the agriculture sector
to meet the food needs of the 220 million people of the country, she said.
Dr Firdous said that bumper crops are a result of the government efforts aiming at the prosperity of the farmers through sustained reforms.
National prosperity is linked with farmers’ prosperity and it is deplorable that past governments’ mismanagement
resulted in making Pakistan a food importer, she said.
Responding to a question, the SACM said the speaker and law minister are part of the Punjab assembly and it is expected that they will remain abreast of public issues. Their ‘software’ is regularly updated according to the political situation.
She said that around 1.5 billion rupees were paid to sugarcane farmers along with payment of arrears of 26 billion rupees. This is a huge achievement of the PTI government, she said.
