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Women chant anti-India and pro-freedom slogans at a rally held in Muzaffarabad to mark Women s Day. Photo by author
MUZAFFARABAD: Scores of women staged a demonstration here on Monday to draw global attention to the plight of women in India-held Kashmir as the international community celebrated social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women on a day dedicated to them.
Separately, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider also attended two different events in the town to mark the day.
The demonstrators first staged a sit-in along a busy thoroughfare near Burhan Wani Chowk from where they marched up to Garhi Pan Chowk amid loud pro-freedom and anti-India chants.
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MUZAFFARABAD:
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that as the world is celebrating international women s day, thousands of women in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) are immensely suffering at the hands of occupation troops of an aggressor country .
“Thousands of women in Kashmir suffer immensely due to the illegal occupation of their motherland. Sisters have died while saving their siblings, young wives have suffered defending their husbands and mothers have taken their last breath longing for their missing sons,” the president said while addressing a 70-member delegation of Air War College of Pakistan Air Force on Monday.
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On Thursday, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan described Kashmir and Pakistan as inseparable and urged the youth to strive hard for the liberation of Kashmir to complete the state of Pakistan
He made these remarks while addressing a Kashmir seminar organised by the School of Media Studies of Punjab University in Lahore.
The event was also addressed by Vice-Chancellor Punjab University Prof Dr Niaz Ahmed, Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, journalist Dr Mujahid Ali Mansoori, while other faculty members and a large number of students participated.
“The state of Pakistan is incomplete without the inclusion of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and without the participation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Referring to the situation of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Masood said that India is committing serious war crimes in held Kashmir and was engaged in genocide of the Muslims. He said that the Indians are dishonouring the whole M