College Will Remain Closed Tomorrow in Respect of Kashmir Day

Kashmir Solidarity Day will be observed across the country and Azad Kashmir on Friday with the pledge to continue supporting Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.

Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed on February 5 every year to highlight the plight of people in the Indian-held Kashmir and draw the world’s attention to its obligation to the UN-sponsored plebiscite there. It will be a closed holiday in the country.

Different political and social organisations have chalked out special programmes to show unity with the Kashmiris struggling to achieve freedom from Indian subjugation.

Protest rallies and demonstrations will be across the country and human chains will be formed in the areas connecting Pakistan and Azad Kashmir to support the just cause of the Kashmiris.

The participants of the rallies will also strongly condemn gross violations of basic human rights and excesses being committed by Indian troops in the occupied valley.

They would also present memorandums to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad and the United Nations Office to remind of the Kashmiris’ right of self-determination.

A memorandum will also be presented to the UN Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan in Muzaffarabad.

Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of partition plan under which Pakistan and India emerged as independent states in 1947. Under the plan, originally, Kashmir was part of Pakistan but India annexed major part of Kashmir by sending troops to Srinagar on October 26, 1947.

Kashmiri freedom fighters resisted Indian aggression and got some part of Kashmir liberated from Indian occupation which is known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan extends its moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.