All educational institutions, including public and private sectors, civil society, traders, lawyers, factory workers, Civil Aviation Authority employees and Pakistan Railways staff on Friday stopped their work at 12pm to express their solidarity with the Kashmiris.
The protesters also made a human chain in protest and chanted slogans against the Indian forces. In Khanewal, a big procession was taken out from the University College of Management and Sciences and hundreds of students and members of academic staff participated in the rally. The UCMS rally participants were carrying banners in their hands inscribing slogans in favour of the Kashmiris. All the students led by UCMS deputy director campus Dr Muhammad Salman, campus coordinator Ms Mehreen Anum and faculty members marched on the roads and chanted slogans against the Indian atrocities.
Speaking on the occasion, UCMS deputy director campus Dr Muhammad Salman condemned the Indian atrocities in the Indian Held Kashmir. He said that India had made the Kashmir a prison for the last 25 days. The Kashmir had become a focal point of human rights abuses, he added. Dr Muhammad Salman criticised the international community on keeping mum on gross human violations in the Indian Held Kashmir. He said that the Pakistani nation stands with the Kashmiris.
Meanwhile, Multan Development Authority Director General Tanveer Iqbal also arranged a rally took out from the MDA while Pakistan Railways Divisional Superintendent Daud Pota also took out a rally from Multan Cantonment Station.The Pakistani and Azad Kashmir’s national anthems were played at Multan Public School and College. Later, the students and the teachers took out a rally from the school.
Multan City District Administration also took out a rally led by Commissioner Iftikhar Ali Sahu, Deputy Commissioner Amir Khattak, CPO Zubair Dareshak, MPAs Salim Laber, Qasim Langah and Abdullah Tariq. Thousands of people participated in the rally started from Chowk Ghanta Ghar.
