Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed on Monday to reiterate whole-hearted support of Pakistani nation to the just struggle of Kashmiri people for their inalienable right to self-determination under the UN resolutions, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
The Kashmir Day was marked with rallies, seminars, walks and other events throughout Pakistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and abroad.
One-minute silence was observed at 09:30 am to pay homage to the martyrs of Kashmir.
Posters and billboards have been displayed around important avenues, airports, and railway stations to highlight the plight of Kashmiri people.
In connection with the day, debate and declamation contests as well as essay-writing competitions were organized in educational institutions.
Rally taken out in Islamabad
In connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day, a rally was taken from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Constitution Avenue in Islamabad.
Federal 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 people belonging to different walks of life were amongst the participants of the rally.
The participants raised full-throated slogans in support of Kashmiri people. They were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans highlighting the Indian atrocities in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking to the participants of the rally at its culmination point at D-Chowk, Murtaza Solangi said every generation of Kashmiri people has written a tale of valor by facing Indian atrocities and oppression. He said the Kashmiri people have been facing all sorts of atrocities, including extrajudicial killings, but they will never make any compromise on their right to self- determination. He said Pakistan will stand by their Kashmiri brothers and sisters until they get their right to self determination.
Messages of President, PM, Services Chiefs
President Dr Arif Alvi, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and Services Chiefs have said that Pakistan will continue to extend its unstinted moral, diplomatic and political support for just solution to Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiri people.
In his message on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day, President Dr Arif Alvi said people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been struggling to realize their right to self-determination for last seventy-six years.
The President said the UN General Assembly annually adopts a resolution expressing unequivocal support for the realization of the right to self-determination for people under foreign occupation. Regrettably, the Kashmiri people have not been able to exercise this inalienable right.
He said Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most militarized zones in the world.
He said following its illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, India's efforts have been aimed at engineering demographic and political changes so that the Kashmiris are transformed into a disempowered community in their own land.
In his message, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said this is an occasion to pay rich tribute to sacrifices made by our Kashmiri brothers and sisters during the last seventy-six years.
He said relevant UN Security Council Resolutions provide that the final disposition of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with will of people of Jammu and Kashmir, expressed through democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under auspices of the United Nations.
The armed Forces of Pakistan, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Services Chiefs have paid rich tribute to people of Kashmir for their resolve and valiant struggle, consistently braving grave human rights violations and inhumane lockdown in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under Indian occupation forces.
Caretaker Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi in his message said Jammu and Kashmir is one of the longest-standing issues on the agenda of the UN Security Council.
He said the ultimate goal of Pakistan is to resolve the Kashmir issue according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people and the relevant UN resolutions.