RAWALPINDI: Like other parts of the country, the ‘Youm-e-Istehsal’ here on Thursday was observed to express solidarity with the oppressed Kashmiri people on completion of two years of the military siege of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Various government departments including district administration, Rawalpindi Waste Management Company, Education, Health, Arts Council, and others organized seminars and took out rallies to express solidarity with their Kashmiri brothers and sisters.
Addressing a rally at Katcheri chowk, Assistant Commissioner Waqas Sikandari saluted to commitment and will of the people in IIOJK without bowing to the brutal use of force by the Indian troops.
The AC also paid tributes to the veteran Kashmiri activists who had been braving off all the Indian pressures and arrests on many occasions to continue the freedom struggle with utmost courage.
Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi traders association also took out a rally at bank road to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir in their fight against the Indian occupation.
A photographic exhibition to create awareness of human rights violations in occupied Kashmir was also held at the Arts Council.
Banners and portraits of heroes of the Kashmir struggle were also displayed by different government and private organizations on all city roads to mark the day .
It was on August 5, 2019 that the special constitutional status of IIOJK was scrapped by the Modi government.