Rally under PAT Lahore shows solidarity with Kashmiris

Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Lahore took out a rally from Aiwan-e-Iqbal to the Lahore Press Club to express solidarity with the Kashmiri brothers and sisters. The participants of the rally were carrying the national flags, placards, banners and charts on which the slogans condemning India for its brutality and showing support and solidarity with Kashmiris were written. The rally was jointly led by PAT Lahore President Dr Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry and General Secretary PAT Lahore Gulzar Hussain Shah.

A large number of people and workers of PAT including central Secretary Coordination Arif Chaudhry, Haji Farrukh Khan Qadri, Muhammad Afzal Gujjar, Mufti Khalil Hanfi, Saqib Bhatti, Shafaqat Mughal and Raja Nadeem took part in the rally. The participants of the rally chanted passionate slogans in support of the oppressed Kashmiris and against the Indian barbarism. They expressed rich tributes to Kashmiris for their unflinching struggle for the right to self -determination.

Addressing the rally Lahore president Dr Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said that human rights are being violated with abandon in occupied Kashmir. He said that the Kashmir dispute should be solved in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations and aspirations of Kashmiris. He said that the sacrifices of the people of occupied Kashmir will not be in vain and they will get their fundamental rights.

PAT Lahore president said that the United Nations guaranteed the right to self determination to Kashmirs, stating that it is important to remind the UN of its pledges.

Secretary Coordination Arif Chaudhry, while addressing the rally, said that on every Kashmir Solidarity Day, we remind all the influential countries and the United Nations of of the resolutions passed by the latter to give the right of self-determination to Kashmiris. He said that without implementing the resolutions of August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949, the transparent and just solution of the Kashmir dispute is not possible. He said that the South Asian region will continue to remain vulnerable if Kashmir, which has become a flashpoint, is not resolved.

Haji Farooq Khan Qadri, president of PAT Yout Wing, said in his speech that India has been creating hurdles in the way of solution of the Kashmir issue instead of implementing the UN resolutions. He said that the state terrorism in occupied Kashmir has been going on for the last many decades in which the Indian occupation forces have targeted women, men and children ruthlessly. He said that the implementation of the UN resolutions is the only workable solution for the Kashmir dispute.

Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah said in his remarks that if the world wants to see sustainable peace in South Asia, then it should force India to implement the resolutions of the United Nations with respect to Kashmiris' right to self-determination, adding that nothing short of it will work.