MIRPUR: Kashmir Solidarity Day, on the 5th of February, which falls on Wednesday, would feature human chains connecting the people of Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir on all seven of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) bridges that connect Pakistan with the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir.
This was announced in a meeting with the media by the Chairman National Events Organizing Committee, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Riaz Chaudhry. He informed that the final touches had been given to the Kashmir Solidarity Day programs in Mirpur district besides other parts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
Human chain on Kashmir solidarity day
Earlier a high-level meeting chaired by DC reviewed the arrangements to observe the Kashmir Solidarity Day in a befitting manner. The meeting was attended by the heads of all nation-building departments, political parties, and the heads of various representative organizations of all segments of the civil society.
At the same time, the AJK government sources said that the human chains by the Pakistani brethren with the people of Kashmir, would be made at all seven bridges of Azad Kashmir, linking Pakistan to Kashmir including Kohala, Holar, Bararkot, Dhalkot, Azad Pattan, Dhan Galli and Mangla bridge over various Kashmir’s born rivers falling in Pakistan. This human solidarity chain will be made at 10:00am on the Kashmir Solidarity Day.
Like all past years since 1975, the Kashmir Solidarity Day will be observed on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC), in Pakistan and the rest of the world where Kashmiris were living to express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren fighting against the tyranny of Indian occupation forces in the Indian held Jammu & Kashmir.
According to the elaborated day-long programs in AJK, the scheduled Kashmir Solidarity Day will be observed with traditional and unprecedented enthusiasm and a renewed resolve to continue extending the fullest moral, political and diplomatic support, shoulder to shoulder for the Kashmiri brethren in occupied Jammu Kashmir, in their just and principled struggle for the achieving Kashmiris legitimate right to self-determination and liberation of the motherland from the Indian subjugation.
As a public holiday, the people will take out rallies in all big and small cities, hold seminars, and vow to be with their oppressed brethren in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK) in their hour of trial.
The day will be observed with renewed pledges and commitments to continue diplomatic, moral, and political support to the Jammu Kashmir people in their just and principled struggle for the achievement of the right to self-determination and the cause of Kashmir.
As a mark of respect to the valiant struggle of Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir, a one-minute silence will be observed at 10:00am. To pay respects and homage to the martyrs of Kashmir, as all rail and road traffic came to a standstill.
The human chain will be formed on all six bridges, including Kohala, Bararkot, Dhalkot, Azad Pattan, Holar, Dhaan Galli and Mangla bridges the entering points that connect AJK with Pakistan. Thousands of people belonging to AJK and Pakistan areas will gather at these bridges and form a human chain as a sign of strong support and solidarity.
