LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar and Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar along with a large number of people including provincial ministers, legislators and government employees participated in a function held in connection with Black Day here Tuesday, to express solidarity with the Kashmiris and register their protest against the atrocities of Hindu supremacist Modi regime.
The anthems of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir were aired and the participants chanted 'long live Pakistan' and 'Kashmir will become Pakistan' slogans while holding flags of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. They also led a walk and condemned blasphemous caricatures in France as well as the Peshawar blast.
The CM said on the occasion that the Pakistani nation strongly protests against profane caricatures in France adding that children have been targeted in Peshawar blast. The purpose of celebrating the Black Day is to sensitize the international community about illegal Indian occupation of Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, he added. More than a year has passed to lockdown in Indian Occupied Kashmir but the perversity of wicked Modi is intact, he lamented. Everyone can guess the consequences of this continued lockdown as it was also imposed here due to corona, the CM said. Regrettably, oppressed Kashmiris are going through unimaginable restrictions, he added. The CM appreciated that PM Imran Khan has presented the case of Indian Occupied Kashmir before the world with determination adding that struggle of the Kashmiris with bear fruit as the freedom destination of Occupied Kashmir is not far. Occupied Kashmir will soon get freedom according to the UN resolutions and Pakistan will not deviate from providing diplomatic, moral and political support to the Kashmiris, he added.
The governor Ch. Sarwar said on the occasion that Muslims around the world strongly condemned profane caricatures in France and asked the international community to take strict action against supporters of such blasphemous caricatures. We also strongly condemn Peshawar blast, he added.
Imran Khan is a genuine ambassador of Kashmir who has fought their case at every forum and exposed Indian transgressions, he said, adding: "India has illegally annexed the state of Kashmir and Modi has written a new history of despotism in India as well as in Occupied Kashmir." The world must take notice of Indian brutalities. Kashmiris struggle will bear fruit and Modi will have to be answerable to his crimes, he continued.
Moreover, the CM has strongly condemned the blast in a seminary in Deer Colony area of Peshawar and expressed a deep sense of sorrow over the loss of lives. Extending sympathies to heirs and prayed for early recovery of the injured, the CM said the Punjab government fully shares the grief of the bereaved families. The terrorists have exhibited the worst barbarity and attacking children's seminary is the most coward act, he added.
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