New Delhi/Jammu, March 10 (Scoop News) – Youth For Panun Kashmir (Y4PK) today kick started a massive nationwide awareness campaign, METRO WALK, from the national capital this morning.
In a statement Kamal Hak,National Spokesperson, Panun Kashmir said that in a series of day long events young activists of Panun Kashmir distributed one hundred thousand pamphlets outside the different gates of Rajiv Chowk Metro station. A number of street plays under the theme of ‘Jeshan-e-Exile’ were staged by the young Y4PK activists, Kanwal Peshin, Rakesh Pandita and others near Hanuman Mandir, Central Park, Cannaught Place and surrounding areas. A series of musical street concerts were also been performed to attract the attention of common masses. Eminent singer and musician Dalip Langoo along with highly talented guitarist Rahul Tiku also performed during the events.
Kamal Hak said that the unique feature of programme a live webcast of all the events. The entire series of events was available live www.youthforpanunkashmir.org
In order to seek the support of common Indian masses, a phone in facility was launched simultaneously. People are asked to record the support in their own voice by dialing a telephone number 09711041414 and then pressing 1. The phone in will play a message by Panun Kashmir convener, Dr. Agnishekhar. According to the technical team monitoring the web cast and phone in IVR, around 10,000 people had logged on the the web site by 3PM and 12,000 messages had been recorded in phone IVR. The day long series of events in Delhi were launched by Dr. Agnishekhar, Convener, Panun Kashmir by handing over the first pamphlets to the passengers coming out of the Rajiv Chowk Metro station. Panun Kashmir intends to take this campaign to all major Indian cities shortly. The Delhi campaign would immediately be followed by similar activity in Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.
He said that the Metro Walk campaign will fulfill the part of the resolutions adopted by the 1st International Kashmiri Pandit Youth Conference in Pune recently. It may be recalled that the International Youth Conference held under the aegis of Panun Kashmir had seen an overwhelming number of young displaced Kashmiri Pandit Youth resolving to launch a global campaign for educating the people about the realities behind the militancy in Kashmir and to garner support for a separate Homeland for seven hundred thousand Kashmiri Pandits. Youth for Panun Kashmir has already released a promotional musical video, Walk- Walk-Walk- Metro Walk, to garner publicity for the programme. The music of the said video has been written by a young Kashmiri Pandit activist in Taipei and the video has been compiled by a teenager living in Faridabad.