New York State Assembly for Kashmir

The current ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ was started by the Pakistani minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas in 2004. However, in the present In the United States, the New York State Assembly passed a resolution on 5 February 2021 calling on the Governor of New York to recognise the day as “Kashmir American Day”. According to the resolution, the day is meant to recognize New York’s Kashmiri community and to “champion human rights including the freedom of religion, movement, and expression for all Kashmiri people, which are embedded within the United States Constitution, through the recognition of diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious identities.”  The Pakistani mission thanked the New York lawmaker Nader Sayegh and the American Pakistani Adocacy Group for their efforts

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