AJK Christian Community Celebrates Easter Festival With Due Religious Fervor, Solemnity And Reverence.

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Apr, 2019 ) :The Christian community in different parts of Azad Jammu Kashmir Sunday celebrated their religious festival of Easter with fullest traditional religious zeal fervor.

Major services to celebrate the day were hosted at different places in AJK including Mangla town of Mirpur district, where Christian community lives in. The Christian community inhibiting Azad Kashmir particularly in Mirpur district attended the services and pray for the salvation besides for the progress and prosperity of Pakistan including Azad Jammu Kashmir besides for the early success of Kashmir freedom movement.

The participants of the Easter Day service prayed for the solidarity, integrity and prosperity of the country including Azad Jammu & Kashmir besides for the freedom of occupied Jammu & Kashmir from Indian subjugation.

Speaking at special service on this occasion at Christian Community Center at Chitterpari, in outskirt of Mirpur city on Sunday speakers including AJK minister Ch. Muhammad Saeed, Director General Religious Affairs AJK Hafiz Muhammad Nazir, Reverend Haroon Ajmal, Javeid Gill, Younis Bhatti, Supreme Head Mirpur Christian Foundation, Nasir Gill, Patras Choudhry, Imran James and others said that requisite arrangements were made by the local Christian fraternity with the coordination of the related state functionaries to facilitate the local Christian community to celebrate the religious festival of Easter with fullest religious solemnity and fervor.

The service of Easter marked the day of pledge with special prayers by the Christian community to serve for the maintenance of religious obligations by the community besides for the welfare of the community and uplift and prosperity of the country including AJK, Gill underlined.

Speaking on this occasion, AJK minister for sports youth and culture Ch. Muhamamd Saeed said that like across Pakistan the minority communities including the AJK-based Christians enjoyed full liberties to perform their religious obligations at par with the majority Muslim community.

The Christian Community's religious leaders said that the minorities in Pakistan including Azad Jammu Kashmir will not lag behind to serve for the speedy progress and prosperity of the country including AJK side by side their fellow countrymen belonging to the majority Muslim community.

They said that minorities including Christian community in Pakistan and AJK were enjoying full liberty to perform their religious rites and all other related obligations � since they were enjoying an excellent life coupled with all benefits along with other fellow-countrymen, they remarked.