LAHORE, Feb 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and the city district government will organize Kashmir Day rallies in the provincial metropolis on Feb 5.

Punjab Jamaat-i-Islami secretary-general Syed Munawwar Hasan will lead the MMA rally which will start from Nasser Bagh and march on Shahrah-i-Quaid-Azam. Allama Shabbir Ahmad Hashmi, Maulana Syed Amir Husain Gilani and other MMA leaders will address the rally.

The city district government rally will start from the Nazim office and end at Istanbul Chowk after marching on the Lower Mall and Shahrah-i-Quaid-i-Azam stretch in front of the Jinnah Hall. People from all walks of life will participate in the rally along with workers and leaders of various Kashmiri organizations, trader bodies, union council Nazimeen and councillors.

District Nazim Mian Amer will lead the rally and address its participants at Istanbul Chowk along with the leaders of the organizations taking part in it.

National Workers Party president Abid Hasan Manto, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front leader Sardar Anwar and Dr Mehdi Hasan will be the main speakers at a discussion on self-determination of Kashmir and role of India and Pakistan to be held at 3pm at the ASR Resource Centre. The speakers will discuss the Kashmir issue and views of youth expressed at the Asian Social Forum, Hyderabad (India).