A man decorates a Christmas tree at the St. John Cathedral Church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
Pastor of AJK and Chairman of AJK Christian Welfare Society, Salik M Gill addressing a gathering of local Christian community held at Mangla said the religious festival would be celebrated with full traditional religious enthusiasm in AJK including Mirpur district.
He said there was complete freedom to the minorities including the Christian community following traditional communal harmony between minorities and majority community in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) to perform their religious rights and other traditional and cultural obligations like in other parts of the country.
Pastor Gill said because of the liberal approach of the government and the people of Pakistan and AJK, the soil of motherland — Pakistan and AJK were enriched with conductive environment for the minority communities where there was complete sovereignty and freedom to perform their religious rites and other due obligations.
Gill said the minorities would bring about all of their potentials for the speedy progress, prosperity and uplift of the country and would leave no stone unturned to make the defense of the country more stronger up to the required extent.
Pastor Gill said the minority Christian community would not ever lag behind in giving any sacrifice to make the Kashmir freedom movement complete success.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 24th, 2017.
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