SIALKOT: A number of people on Sunday participated in the ‘Kashmir Solidarity Rally’ taken out under the auspices of the Supreme Ulema Council.

People from all walks of life including religious scholars and students of seminaries participated in the rally carrying flags of Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir. They chanted anti-India slogans and burnt effigies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The participants led by Sahibzada Hamid Raza, former AJK minister for religious affairs, marched on Sucheetgarh Zero Point along the Sialkot Working Boundary. They expressed solidarity with the oppressed people of India-held Kashmir.

Hundreds of people reached far-off border village Sucheetgarh and demanded relief for the people of Kashmir.

Sahibzada Hamid Raza urged the world to play its role in exerting pressure on India to stop terrorism in Kashmir and ensuring its earliest solution according to the aspirations of the people.

Other speakers also rapped mounting human rights violations, genocide, deaths in custody and state terrorism by India and said these should shake the conscience of the world. They said Kashmir was the unfinished agenda of the Partition and the latest Indian move was a blatant violation of the United Nations resolutions.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2019