Thousands of people rallied across Lahore on Friday to observe 'Kashmir Solidarity Day' to highlight Indian occupation of Kashmir, setting ablaze Indian flags and effigies of Indian Prime Minister and Army chief, condemning UN silence over the six decades violation of its resolutions on occupied Kashmir.
All religious, social, and political parties held meetings, seminars and demonstrations to mark the day, condemning Indian occupation of Kashmir in violation of UN resolutions and perpetrating worst kind of human rights abuses on Kashmiri Muslims for demanding freedom.
They drew a parallel between Kashmir issue with those of East Timor and Scotland, asking if UN could force those countries to hold plebiscite then why allowing Delhi to continue six-decade trampling of UN resolutions. In the Punjab capital, the Solidarity rally was staged at the Shahra-e-Quaid-e-Azam. JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch, led the rally. Secretary, Supreme Court Bar Association, Asad Manzur Butt, also addressed the rally.
In his address, Liaqat Baloch said that the Pakistani rulers had made every effort to sabotage the Kashmiris liberation movement spread over seventy years and were keen to kiss the hands of Indian leaders soaked with the Kashmiris' blood. The rulers were anxious for trade with India. He said that the OIC had also done little to solve the issues facing the Ummah. Addressing the workers, Samina Ghurki said if all the political parties raised a unanimous voice for Kashmir's freedom, it could spread all over the world. She said that PPP under the leadership of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was committed to ensure freedom of Kashmir from Indian occupation.
Besides, JI, JUI-S, PPP, PML-N, PTI, Sunni Tehreek, different Kashmiri groups also held demonstrations and rallies, mostly on Mall Road and the Lahore Press Club to register their protest. Addressing the public meeting outside the Lahore High Court, speakers demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to immediately call a meeting of Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Islamabad to chalk out a unanimous strategy of Muslim world to resolve occupied Kashmir issue. 'We are Kashmiris and Kashmir is ours; our religion binds us as one nation and we will always continue our moral support to our brothers oppressed by the brutality of Indian armed forces in Kashmir,' he said.
JUI-F Deputy General Secretary Maulana Muhammad Amjad Khan in his address stressed on the unity of Muslim countries. Kashmir Centre Lahore also set up a protest camp at Faisal Chowk which was addressed by former Punjab Governor and PPP leader Sardar Latif Khosa, Ghulam Mohiuddin Diwan, Incharge Kashmir Centre Inamul Haq Kashmiri, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and others. A number of student and youth organisations organised seminars, demonstrations and walks in which the participants highlighted the need of solution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN resolutions.
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