Thousands Rally for Kashmir, AFP, 5 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Thousands of people rallied across Pakistan on Friday to denounce Indian rule in Kashmir, the disputed mainly Muslim state divided between the nuclear-armed rivals. A Pakistani public holiday, Kashmir Solidarity Day, supports the region's right to self-determination in line with UN resolutions that call for a plebiscite in Kashmir on whether it should be ruled by India or Pakistan. This year's event came a day after it emerged India had proposed foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan, a breakthrough in relations that were frozen after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, blamed on Pakistani militants. Banners and hoardings calling for Kashmir's freedom from Indian rule were put up by main roads and intersections across Pakistan. In the capital Islamabad, several thousand activists from hardline party Jamaat-e-Islami demonstrated and formed a human chain, an AFP photographer saw. In Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, thousands of people took to the streets chanting 'Allah Akbar' (God is greatest), 'We want jihad against India' and 'Kashmir will become Pakistan', an AFP reporter witnessed. Pakistan observed a one-minute silence at 10:00 am (0500 GMT) as a mark of respect to the more than 47,000 people killed since an insurgency broke out in mainly Muslim Indian Kashmir in 1989."
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