On Friday, demonstrations were scheduled in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) districts of Bagh and Hajira to commemorate the Bangladesh War of Independence, which resulted in the creation of East Pakistan.
The protestors made comparisons between the predicament of East Pakistan at the time and the current state of the POK under the Punjabi Pakistani regime. New appeals from Islamabad for “Haquqi Azadi” (genuine freedom) sparked anti-Islamabad chants.
It was the first time that such a protest was held on 16th Dec in POK December 16 is marked as a Vijay Diwas in India. On December 16, 1971, Lt Gen Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the chief martial law administrator of East Pakistan and the commander of the Pakistan Army located in East Pakistan, signed the Instrument of Surrender.de
