OTTAWA-UNS: The Pakistan High Commission in Ottawa and its three Consulates in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal commemorated the Kashmir Solidarity Day, reaffirming Pakistan’s unwavering support for the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK) in their just struggle for self-determination.
On the occasion, a series of programmes were arranged including pictorial exhibitions, documentary screening and media interactions to highlight the human rights violations in the
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir and to express solidarity with Kashmiris facing the worst kind of oppression under illegal Indian occupation.
A special event was held at the High Commission attended by members of the
Pakistani and Kashmiri diaspora, media, academics, and human rights activists.
On this occasion, messages of the President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan
were read out to the audience. Moreover, various documentaries on Kashmiris’
struggle were screened and broadcast on the social and local electronic media.
High Commissioner of Pakistan Mr. Muhammad Saleem highlighted the Indian
brazenness subjecting the defenceless Kashmiris to endless atrocities.
In a video message, the High Commissioner also reiterated that international
human rights organizations, the media as well as UN human rights mechanisms,
have been unanimous in their condemnation of India’s illegal and inhuman actions
IIOJK. He underscored that IIOJK was the most militarised region in the world. He
called upon the international community to stop India of massive violations of
human rights in IIOJK, rescind the unilateral and illegal measures and implement
the United Nations’ 13 Resolutions. There is a need for concerted efforts to
mobilize international public opinion that this protracted conflict cannot be
addressed without granting right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir, he
added.
