SIALKOT, July 13: Kashmiri people residing in Sialkot and Narowal districts remembered on Sunday their brethren martyred by Dogra police at Srinagar on July 13, 1931.
According to a press release, they observed Youm-i-Shuhada-i-Kashmir by holding meetings in Sialkot city, Cantonment, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Uggoki, Satrah, Pasrur, Chawinda, Badiana, Shakargarh, Zafarwal, Baddomalhi and Narowal.
Speakers at the meetings strongly condemned the state terrorism, large-scale human rights violations and genocide of the Kashmiris by Indian army in the occupied valley.
They included Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Forum’s central chairman Dr Zahid Ghani Dar, MMA’s Sialkot district general secretary Hafiz Zafar Iqbal and MPA Arshad Mahmood Baggu.
Expressing solidarity with the innocent Kashmiris, they urged the UN to press India to resolve the issue according to the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
They said that peaceful solution of Kashmir issue was vital for durable and sustainable peace in the subcontinent. The Kashmir has become a flash point between the two nuclear neighbours.
INDIAN HELD: The Intelligence Bureau nabbed an Indian national, Amjad Khan, in Bihari Colony late on Saturday night.
According to an official press release issued here, the accused, Amjad Khan, had been living in Pakistan for the last 22 years and was involved in human-trafficking between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
The Intelligence Bureau recovered a fake Pakistani passport and the national identity card from his possession.
The cantonment police have registered a case against the accused and put him behind bars.
Further investigation is under way.
FLOOD PLAN: The flood prevention plan of the Sialkot district government was reviewed at a meeting here on Saturday.
District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid informed the meeting, presided over by Punjab Minister for Labour and Human Resources Syed Akhtar Hussain Rizvi, that Sialkot has been divided into 17 flood sectors and 34 sub-sectors.
As many as 57 posts and 116 mobile teams have been established to ensure provision of health and medical coverage to the people in case of flood.
Sialkot DCO Capt Zahid Saeed (retired) and all district heads of nation-building departments also attended the meeting.
ARRESTED: The security forces arrested a Bengali woman who was trying to enter India illegally along with her three daughters through the Sialkot working boundary here on Sunday.
Official sources identified the accused as Khadija Bilal (40) and her daughters as Yasmeen (4), Rehmat Bibi (3) and Rani (2). During the interrogation, she told the Pakistan agencies that she had illegally entered Pakistan from India many years ago and was living in Karachi. She married one Bilal and gave birth to three daughters. Her husband kicked her and her daughters out of his house over a domestic dispute.
Ms Bilal and her daughters reached Data Darbar in Lahore. An unknown person took them to Sialkot and left them near the Sialkot working boundary for illegally entering India — from where she would have returned to her homeland.
The cantonment police have registered a case against the Bengali woman.