<span style="color: #222222;">People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have strongly rejected Islamabad's call for 'Kashmir Solidarity Day' on 5th February and demonstrated against Pakistan for not providing rights to them. The residents of PoK and Gilgit Baltistan opposed the Kashmir Solidarity Day, which is being observed in Pakistan misleadingly to show their support for the Kashmiris. On the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day in Pakistan, locals and several organisations in PoK were seen raising slogans of independence.&nbsp; Slogans like Kashmir will become independent are echoing in the region. The people in PoK and Gilgit Baltistan are demanding Pakistani forces and administration to leave the territory.</span><br />”Locals highlighted the stark difference between PoK and the developing Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Territory of India. Highlighting Pakistan's deception on Kashmir, the residents in PoK are suggesting Islamabad look at its shortcomings instead of doing propaganda on the issue. A political activist in PoK, Toqeer Gilani, expressed his anger and said, on the one hand, Pakistan announced to express solidarity with Kashmir on February 5, on the other hand, the same dispensation denies the basic rights to the people under its control. He added that the people can see that the propaganda of Kashmir is being used rapidly this year in Pakistan to distract attention from the movement that is going on there.<br />”<br />”&nbsp;There are widespread protests in Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, and other areas under Pakistan's illegal control over issues such as wheat subsidies, load shedding, poor education, and unemployment.<br />”<br />”<br />”<span style="color: #222222;">Shaukat Nawaz Mir, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee, said in his address that people have been fighting for their rights for the past 76 years. He added that the politicians in PoK have failed to provide people with these rights, which have forced people to sit on the roads.</span><br />