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Published 30 Aug, 2008 12:00am

Solidarity expressed with Kashmiris

SIALKOT, Aug 29: Scores of activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Friday staged a rally to express solidarity with the Kashmiris living across the Line of Control under the Indian suppression.

In Sialkot city, the Jamaat’s central and provincial leaders led the rally, which began from the Allama Iqbal Chowk and ended in Sucheetgarh village.The village is located along the Sialkot Working Boundary.

The participants, who were holding banners and placards against the Indian occupation of Kashmir, raised slogans against India.

Later, at a Kashmir conference, the Jamaat-i-Islami leaders expressed concern at the large scale human rights violations by the Indian forces in the occupied territory.

They said these nasty practices were enough to shake the conscience of the world and urged the international community to ask India to stop human rights violations in Kashmir.

They urged the United Nations to implement its resolutions relating to the Kashmir dispute.

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