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MIRPUR (AJK) , Feb 2 (APP):As Kashmir Solidarity Day – a landmark to bring Kashmir freedom struggle to its logical end, the people and the Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) government as well as all social, political and human rights organizations across the state are giving final touches to the brisk preparations to observe the Kashmir Solidarity Day on February 5.
The day will be commemorated across the country including AJK to reiterate full solidarity with the Kashmiri brethren living across the Line of Control (LoC) in their just and principled struggle for freedom primarily based on with the prime spirit to achieve their globally-acknowledged right to self determination as enshrined in the international norms in form of the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir issue.
“In AJK, local population from all segments of the civil society are actively engaged to chalk out elaborate programs to re-pledge their solidarity with the people of Pakistan in a dignified manner on Kashmir Solidarity Day”, the organizers told APP on Monday.
This year too, the Kashmir Solidarity Day was being observed in most tragic scenario that was followed by August 05, 2019 India’s sinister act of abrogating special status of the internationally-acknowledged disputed Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir State by the hardliner Modi-led extremist Indian government through abrogation of the article 370 and 35-A of the Indian constitution.
The bleeding occupied valley has been turned into the world’s largest prison following imprisonment of the people protesting against the nefarious Indian action under the shadow of the occupational Indian guns.
“Kashmir Solidarity Day is one of the occasions of significance in Kashmir which is celebrated every year to reiterate complete solidarity with the people of Jammu & Kashmir in their just and principled struggle for freedom and to achieve their globally acknowledged right to self determination”, said Deputy Commissioner Raja Sadaqat, also Chairman National Events Organizing Committee while chairing a meeting of the local civil society including heads of various nation building institutions here at the DC offices complex to devise arrangements for observing the day with traditional zeal and fervor.
He said that the day was most valuable for the Kashmiri people inhibiting either side of LoC and rest of the world.
The day is being celebrated by the Pakistani nation and the government as well as by the masses and the State government in Azad Jammu Kashmir to renew the bondage of long and deep rooted love and affection by the people and the Pakistan’s government which they have for their brethren of Jammu & Kashmir including those swelling in IIOJK by extending all possible moral political and diplomatic support to their indigenous struggle for liberation of the motherland from Indian clutches.
The human chain at all six bridges connecting Pakistan with Azad Jammu Kashmir including Mangla bridge – gate way to this part of Azad Jammu Kashmir State at 09.45 am will be the hall mark of the Kashmir Solidarity day to be attended by large number of people belonging to all walks of life both from Azad Jammu Kashmir and the adjoining Jhelum district of Punjab to be followed by a colorful function at the Mangla bridge.
It may be recalled Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed on 5 February every year since 1975 when late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto gave a country-wide wheel jam protest call against then Indra-Abdullah accord denying all international norms and commitments about the peaceful solution of Kashmir issue besides against the long Indian unlawful and forced occupation of bulk of Jammu & Kashmir against the aspirations of the people of the internationally-acknowledged disputed Himalayan Jammu and Kashmir state .
Ever since this declaration, each year February 5 is observed as Kashmir Solidarity Day, by Pakistanis throughout the country and abroad as well as in Azad Jammu & Kashmir.