ISLAMABAD: The government has unveiled a special postage stamp in connection with Youm-e-Istehsal highlighting the wave of terror unleashed by Modi government in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a news conference here on Monday, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz said that Youm-e-Istehsal would be observed on Aug 5 with national zeal to expose the real face of India.
He said the purpose was to sensitise the world about the atrocities being committed in the occupied territory.
Given the worldwide spread of the stampage, Faraz said the symbolic step would transmit a very strong message to the international community.
He said India had further stoked tension in the region through its illegal actions of 5th Aug, and the world community should take cognizance of it.
He said 5th Aug was a 'black day' in the history of Kashmir and Pakistan.
The information minister appealed to the nation expressing full solidarity with the oppressed people of Indian illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, showing to the world that the Kashmiri people were not alone, and that they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with them.
Faraz said there was an organised and effective plan to fully observe Youm-e-Istehsal.
Special functions have been arranged for this purpose, while the PTV and the Radio Pakistan will also promote the Kashmir cause.
In his remarks on the occasion, Minister for Communications Murad Saeed shared the main features of the design of the postal stamp.
He said the postal stamp shows the completion of one year of illegal action in Indian illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and its brutalities on Kashmiris.
Saeed said Kashmir was the jugular vein of Pakistan and the Prime Minister Imran Khan was the person who had forcefully pleaded the case of Kashmir, and unmasked the fascist and Hindutva mindset of the Modi government at the world level.
He said the day was not far away when Kashmiris would get freedom from the Indian clutches.
To a question, Saeed said the campaign for highlighting the Kashmir issue would be run in an effective manner.
Faraz said the issuance of commemorative stamps on the first anniversary of the Indian illegal action was symbolic to convey the message to the entire world that Pakistan stood with the Kashmiris in their struggle for right to self-determination.
The Foreign Ministry, he said, was doing its best to highlight the longstanding Kashmir dispute and other institutions were supporting it in its endeavours.
To a question about the less effective role of Pakistani foreign missions in highlighting the Kashmir cause, the minister said that the diplomats followed the political leadership at the helm of affairs.
As the prime minister himself had become the ambassador of Kashmir, the Foreign Office had become very active in highlighting the Kashmir cause and exposing Indian atrocities.
He said Pakistan would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support for the Kashmir cause till realisation of the goal of freedom.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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