Kashmir Solidarity day observed in Provincial Capital Peshawar
Chitral Times Report
PESHAWAR: A rally was taken out in the provincial capital Peshawar on Saturday to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day and to express solidarity with the oppressed people of India illegally occupied Kashmir.
The rally was led by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan which was attended the by provincial cabinet members Anwar Zeb, Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Arif Ahmad Zai, Zahoor Shakir, Chief Secretary Dr. Shehzad Bangash, Inspector General of Police Muazam Jah Ansaari, civil society members and a large number of students.
The participants of rally were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the illegal occupation of Kashmir by the Indian government. The rally started from Chief Minister’s Secretariat and culminated at Governor House.
On the occasion, talking to journalists, Governor Shah Farman and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan said that the government and public fully expressed solidarity with the innocent people of Kashmir and stand by them in their struggle for freedom.
The purpose behind organizing rally was to remind the international community and human rights organizations to fulfill the pledges made with people of occupied Kashmir in the shape of united Nations resolutions. They urged upon the international community to come forward and paly its role in peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue.
They further said that durable peace in the region is linked to the resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the resolutions of United Nations without which lasting peace in the region is not possible adding that the right to self-determination and independence is the basic right of the people of Kashmir and the people and government of Pakistan will continue to extend moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri brothers in their struggle for freedom. He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had raised the issue of Kashmir in the UN General Assembly very effectively and added that the present government under the leadership of Imran Khan will continue to raise the issue of Kashmir on all international forums in a more effective manner.
