AJK observes Kashmir Solidarity Day with zeal, fervour

Amidst full-throat slogans of "Kashmir Baney Ga Pakistan" people across AJK observed Kashmir Solidarity Day on Sunday with unprecedented zeal and fervour to express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren fighting against the tyranny of occupational forces in the Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
The Day was primarily marked with capacious programs including day-long rallies and demonstrations by making human chains joining hands with Pakistani brethren gathered at all the entry points of AJK.
Kashmiris renewed to continue extending fullest moral, political and diplomatic support to the freedom loving brethren in the Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir in their just and principled struggle for the achievement of Kashmiris legitimate right to self determination and liberation of the motherland from the Indian subjugation. As a public holiday, people representing various walks of life including political, social and human rights organisation took out rallies in all big and small cities across AJK including the capital city of Muzaffarabad and also at the district and tehsil headquarters of all ten AJK districts including Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimbher, Rawalakot, Bagh, Palandri, Haveili, Hattiyan and Neelam Valley where seminars were held and vowed to be with their oppressed brethren in their hour of trial.
Observance of this day was also aimed to highlight the long-standing unsettled dispute of Jammu & Kashmir at International level and apprise the people of Jammu & Kashmir that they are not alone in this hour of trial as people of Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir are whole heartedly with them.
One-minute silence was observed at 9.58 am to pay respect and homage to the martyrs of Kashmir, as all rail and road traffic came to a standstill.
Human chain was formed on all seven bridges, including Mangla, Kohala, Dhalkot, Azad Pattan, Bhimbher and Holar besides at Bararkot the entry and exit points which connect AJK with Pakistan. Thousands of people belonging to AJK and Pakistan areas gathered at these bridges and formed a human Chain to reiterate complete solidarity between them. The human chain formed both by Pakistani and Kashmiri people was aimed at to reiterate the unity and fraternity of this fact that both the people have bonds of love and affection towards each other.
In Mirpur district, a large number of people from adjoining Punjab province led by the Member National Assembly Chaudhry Khadim Hussain belonging to the PML-N reached at Mangla bridge, the gateway to this part of Jammu & Kashmir State, and made human chain to express solidarity with the people of AJK who had also gathered at the bridge to make human chain joining hands with the people of Pakistan to mark the day.
Thousands of people belonging to all walks of life from Mirpur division earlier drove to Mangla bridge in a big procession, led by PML-N AJK leaders Iftikhar Khadim, Nazir Inqlabi and others., Commissioner Mirpur Division Sardar Zaffar Mahmood, DIG Mirpur Range, City Administrator Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin, Chairman National Events Organising Committee and DC Ansar Yaqoob, SSP Mirpur Rnaja Urfan Salim, Sr. Vice Chairman National Events Organising Committee Raja Qaiser Aurangzeb, PML (N) women leader Mrs. Mahmoona Shah, Secretary General NEOC A.H.Rao, Muslim of Jamaat-e-Islami, PTI AJK leader Chaudhry Muhammad Ayub, ex district administrator and AJK Muslim Conference leader Raja Zaffar Maharoof, Presidents of their respective factions of Markazi Anjuman-e-Tajran including Ittehad Group Chief Chaudhry Mahmood Ahmed, Sohail Shujah Mujahid and Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem, Raja Khalid Mahmood, academicians Chaudhry Ajayab Hussain and Raja Rashid Turaab senior journalists and others.
Addressing a Kashmir Solidarity Day rally at Mangla bridge speakers called upon the world community to ensure early peaceful solution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Resolutions and Kashmiri people's wishes.
Speakers said that Kashmiris struggle for freedom is in fact the struggle for completion of Pakistan - since Pakistan is incomplete without its jugular vein - Kashmir, they declared.
MNA Chaudhry Khadim Hussain, who was the chief guest, said on this occasion that the hearts of the people of Pakistan and Kashmir beats in unison. Pakistan, he declared, would continue full moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Jammu & Kashmir in their just and principled struggle for freedom till it reach to its logical end. Speakers paid glowing tributes to the valiant struggling people for facing large scale Indian atrocities in the held territory. They said the sacrifices being offered by the valiant Kashmiri people would not go wasted as the time was not far away when their struggle would be crowned with success very soon. Speakers demanded that India should immediately stop human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and must give the right of freedom to the people of Kashmir according to the UN charter.
A 25-member group of motorcyclists from Multan also reached Mangla Bridge to join the mega Kashmir Solidarity Day program to express solidarity with the people of Jammu & Kashmir on behalf of the people of Pakistan. A rally organised by the Azad Jammu Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami was held here at Shaheed Chowk on Sunday which started from Allama Iqbal Road and culminated at Mangla Bridge where they joined the human chain to express solidarity to the people of occupied Kashmir. The participants of the rally demanded of the global forces to pressurise India to give the right of freedom according to the UN charter to the people of Kashmir. Through an unanimously passed resolutions the congregation called for early peaceful settlement of Kashmir problem through the resumption of proposed comprehensive bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan without further delay to avert the threat of any conflict between the two nuclear neighbouring arch rivals.
Through another resolution the rally expressed full solidarity with the people, government and the valiant armed forces of Pakistan with resolve to go shoulder-to-shoulder the people, government and the brave armed forces of Pakistan to safeguard the ideological and geographical frontiers of Pakistan by making defence of inch after inch of the country.