International Quds Day in Kashmir, Yemen, Pakistan

Rasa - The Yemeni, Kashmiri and Pakistani people held “International Quds Day”, reports said.

News ID: 430543

Date: 23 June 2017 - 23:57

RNA - The residents of the Yemeni province of Ma'rib held a cultural event on the occasion of “International Quds Day”, reports said.

The participants referred to the occupation of Palestine and the crime of the Israeli regime against people of Palestine, Yemen Press reported.

The event was participated by Dhaifullah Al-Shami, the Editor of Saba News Agency and leaders of Ansarollah and several other important personalities.

The participants claimed that Palestinian people and resistance need to be supported with money, weapons and moral support. Stressing the need to fight the aggression and international corruption, the people thanked the Yemeni army and popular committees as well.

Kashmir

Reports said people in Kashmir region observed the Day of Quds and Kashmir to impress upon the international community to come forward in a big way to help the peoples of Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir in securing their inalienable right to self-determination.

The day was marked by staging demonstrations in all major towns across Kashmir on the call given by the joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, Kashmir Media Service reported.

The demonstrations were also aimed at protesting against the killing of Kashmiri youth by security forces.

Despite restrictions, people held demonstrations and big rallies in Srinagar, Badgam, Ganderbal, Islamabad, Bijbehara, Arwani, Kulgam, Pampore, Shopian, Pulwama, Baramulla, Sopore, Pattan, Hajin, Bandipora, Kupwara and other areas.

Muhammad Yasin Malik led a mammoth rally at Charar-e-Sharif in Badgam. Other rallies and protests were led by Hurriyet leaders including Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Javaid Ahmed Mir, Noor Muhammad Kalwal and Masroor Abbas. The participants carried placards reading anti-Israel slogans.

Pro-freedom slogans were raised and Pakistani flag was hoisted on the occasion.

Police fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters in many areas, causing injuries to several of them.

Resolutions supporting the right to self-determination of the people of Kashmir and Palestine were passed in many mosques of the territory.

Complete shutdown was observed in Pulwama, Kakapora, Awantipora, Tral and other adjacent areas to mourn the death of the youth who were killed by security forces yesterday.

Meanwhile, the puppet authorities imposed restrictions in Srinagar and other areas of the Kashmir Valley to prevent people from holding protests and rallies. The historic Srinagar Jamia Masjid was sealed and the people were not allowed to offer Juma prayers.

The authorities had put all Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza and Zafar Akbar Butt under house arrest or in custody.

The leaders in their statements strongly denounced the killing spree unleashed by the security  forces across the territory.

Pakistan

Thousands of people in several cities across Pakistan held rallies to mark al-Quds Day to express solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.

Major Quds rallies were staged after Friday prayers, and the rallies would be culminated before Iftar, Shia Post reported.

The Quds Day is observed all over the world on an appeal from Imam Khomeini, the founder of Islamic Revolution since early 1980s.

Pakistani nation doesn’t recognize Israel as a state or nation but they hold the fake and illegitimate state of Israel as the usurper of the Holy Land of Palestine where Arabs are in majority but racist Zionists had brought in Jews from all over the world in a bid to change the demography in favor of racists Zionists.

The International Quds Day is an annual event opposing Israel's occupation of Beitul-Muqaddas. Anti-Zionist rallies and demonstrations are held on the last Friday of Ramadan in Muslim and Arab countries around the world, specially in Iran, as well as a large number of non-Muslim states.

The International Quds Day was started by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in 1979 as a way of expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and underscoring importance of the holy Quds to Muslims.

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