The Pakistani community in Windsor invites Windsorites to a rally Sunday to show solidarity with the people of Kashmir, living a month now under virtual lockdown.
The disputed region, located between Pakistan and India, went into lockdown at midnight August 5. India's Parliament announced it was suspending the region's constitutional autonomy.
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Since then, Kashmir and Jammu have been under a total communications blackout. Troops patrol the streets, and there is a curfew in place for the area's 14.5-million residents, about 10-million of whom are Muslim.
Despite the blackout, the Zakat Foundation of America said it has heard of food, water, and medicine shortages. The international charity said the region is on the verge of a humanitarian abyss, caught between two feuding nuclear powers. It also reported educational, healthcare, and sanitation systems have begun to collapse.
The Pakistani Canada Association is holding the rally at Charles Clark Square starting at 2:30 p.m.
It is inviting the general public to join them in the act of solidarity with residents of Kashmir against "fascism and human rights violations."
International news reports recount how hundreds of political, religious, social activist leaders were arrested the day of the lockdown, but Al Jazeera said more than 4,000 were imprisoned in the following days.
