A demonstration was held at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry to highlight suffering of Kashmiri brothers and sisters in occupied Kashmir.
Mishaal Malik, wife of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik, former federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani, LCCI Acting President Khawaja Shahzad Nasir, Vice President Faheem-ur-Rehman Saigal, Mian Anjum Nisar, Shahid Hassan Sheikh, Muhammad Ali Mian, Sohail Lashari, Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, Nasir Hameed Khan, Abuzar Shad, traders organizations' representative Naeem Mir, Khalid Pervez, Ashraf Bhatti, students and people from different sectors were present on the occasion.
Mishaal Malik thanked LCCI for highlighting the issue of occupied Kashmir. She said that Indian occupation in held Kashmir and continuous curfew has turned entire Jammu Kashmir state into a jail that is on the verge of serious human crisis.
She said without food, water and medicines, Kashmir Valley was reliving a tragedy like that of Karbala, terming it a new height of Indian Army atrocities on innocent Kashmiri Muslims.
She urged upon the world media to highlight the Indian massacre of Kashmiri men, women and children.
She said thousands of Kashmiri children were killed, wounded and blinded by pellet guns and then their eyeballs were gouged by Indian Army. She warned that if the world especially the Muslim countries did not come forward immediately to stop Muslim genocide in Kashmir, it would become the greatest human tragedy.
Muhammad Ali Durrani said that Kashmir has been under the longest martial law in history and now its citizens were under a violent siege. But India should know that 220 million people and volunteers were standing shoulder to shoulder with the Pakistan Army in support of Kashmir.
The entire world had accepted the Kashmir movement as indigenous and how the fascist Modi could win hearts of Kashmiris by killing them, he questioned.
LCCI Senior Vice President Khawaja Shahzad Nasir and Vice President Faheem-ur-Rehmain Saigal said that Kashmir is jugular vein of Pakistan and business community will not left Kashmiri brothers and sisters alone.
They said that business community has serious concern on the alarming situation in held Kashmir. They said that barbaric killing of innocent people in occupied Kashmir is not acceptable for the business community of Pakistan and it is standing shoulder to shoulder with Kashmiri brothers.
LCCI office-bearers said that the use of forces and ammunition against innocent civilians is a blatant violation of the right to life, right to freedom of expression and opinion, right to peaceful protest, right to peaceful assembly and other rights.
The irresponsible act of Indian government ringing the alarm bells for prospects of peace and tranquility in otherwise volatile region. The growing tension, caused by Indian provocative policy, is not a good sign as confrontation between two nuclear powers could lead mass destruction, they added.
They said occupied Kashmir is a longstanding dispute between Pakistan and India which has not only created tension and instability in the region but also a big threat to international peace and India is violating human rights in Kashmir and busy to kill innocent people.