Nation renews support to cause of Kashmir

ISLAMABAD: The nation on Monday renewed its decades-old unflinching support to the cause of Kashmir, calling on the international community to fulfil its obligation of ensuring the right to self-determination of the people of occupied Kashmir. 

In this regard, Feb 5th was observed as the Kashmir Solidarity Day with a public holiday across the country. 

Rallies, seminars and other events were held across Pakistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan as well as different parts of the would to highlight the Indian atrocities and its illegal occupation of Kashmir for over seven decades. 

A rally at the federal government level was taken out in Islamabad from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was led by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi, Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Fawad Hasan Fawad, Minister of National Heritage and Culture Jamal Shah, Minister for Religious Affairs Aneeq Ahmed, Secretary Foreign Affairs Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi and attended by people belonging to different walks of life.

The participants were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans highlighting the Indian atrocities in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Addressing the rally at Speaking to the participants of the rally at D-Chowk, the ministers said Kashmiris had written a tale of valor by facing Indian atrocities and oppression.

Meanwhile, a huge rally was taken out in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir, in which thousands of people participated. The participants chanted slogans against the India for its human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and denying them their birth right of Self-determination.

The speakers on the occasion rejected the Indian move to abrogate the special status of Kashmir and said New Delhi could not change the international status of the Kashmir dispute which was to be resolved under the United Nations Security Council resolutions.

Religious parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI-F, also held rallies in Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta, Karachi and other cities and towns and strongly condemned Indian occupation of Kashmir and subjugation of its people.