Rally staged to express solidarity with Kashmiris

MANSEHRA: The students, lawyers, traders, and people from other segments of society on Tuesday observed international human rights day as solidarity with people of Indian held Kashmir.

A rally was taken out from outside the press club which reached the Khatm-i-Nabuwaat Chowk after marching through various roads. The protesters, who were holding banners and placards, raised slogans in support plebiscite in Indian Kashmir and lifting of longest-ever curfew there. The protesters also set on fire effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking on the occasion, president of District Bar Association Amir Khan said that the international community should also speak against Indian brutalities and genocides of Kashmiris.

“This day is being observed as Human Rights Day across the world but we have been marking at as the Kashmir Day and expressing our solidarity with our Kashmiri brethren,” said Amir Khan. President of traders body, Sohaib Khan, leader of Tehreek-e-Subah Hazara Mussadiq Ali Shah, Attique Chohan and others said that Pak forces was giving a befitting response to the Indian army against for violating the Line of Control.

A seminar was organised at the Hazara University where speakers including Vice-Chancellor Syed Manzoor Shah and others demanded the international community to help end the siege of the Kashmiris by Indian forces.

They also demanded the right of self-determination for Kashmiris. “The international community should mark this day as solidarity with Kashmiris and condemn the brutalities there,” said Shah.