Pakistan to observe August 5 as 'Yaum-e-Istehsal' to express solidarity with Kashmiris

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday announced that August 5 will be observed as 'Yaum-e-Istehsal' to express solidarity with the Kashmiris. Addressing a press conference, he said that Pakistan's destination is Srinagar. "Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. Kashmir Highway will be named as Srinagar Highway from August 5," he said. The minister said that the shinning India has now turned into a burning India. "The biggest military zone in the world is located in Indian Occupied Jummu and Kashmir (IOJ&K). Pakistan was with Kashmiris yesterday and it is with the Kashmiris today," he reiterated. He said that the Modi government had launched demographic apartheid in Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and divided the region into three parts on August 5 last year. "Kashmiri people are facing immense difficulties, pain and persecution under the continued military siege for the last one year." Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech at UN General Assembly awakened the world and gave a new life to the Kashmir dispute. He said that Pakistan's political leadership is united on the Kashmir issue and Indian attempts to jeopardize this unanimity have been frustrated. The minister said that corona lockdown realized the world about difficulties being faced by the Kashmiri people who were in lockdown even before the virus outbreak.