Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day: SAPM pays tribute to Kashmiri women

ISLAMABAD: On Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan paid tribute to the Kashmiri women for their sacrifices.

 As per details, since 2014, every year 23 February is celebrated as Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day, the aim of celebrating the day is to encourage the struggles of the survivors of mass rape and torture in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

In her message posted on Twitter, Firdous Ashiq Awan wrote: “The India forces had set the worst examples of the gang rape of the innocent Kashmiri women.”

She said and added, “That these women deserve an applaud for braving the situation with courage and setting an example in the history, exposing the Indian authorities”.

کشمیر کی ان بیٹیوں کو سلام پیش کرتے ہیں جنہوں نے اپنے شوہروں کو آزادی کشمیر پر قربان کردیا۔ ان ماؤں کو خراج تحسین پیش کرتے ہیں جنہوں نے اپنے لخت جگر وار دئیے۔ 2/1#WomenResistanceDay pic.twitter.com/ucsOTMplf3

— Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan (@Dr_FirdousAwan) February 23, 2020

She appreciated the women of Kashmir who sacrificed their husbands and mothers whose sons got martyred while putting up a resistance against the Indian occupation of Kashmir.