The government has announced that a public holiday would be observed on February 5 (Monday) on account of the Kashmir Solidarity Day.

“One minute silence shall be observed at 1000 hours to hounour Kashmir Shuhda,” said a press release issued by the Cabinet Division.

There are as many as eleven public holidays in 2024, according to the circular issued by the government on December 12, 2023.

Pakistan has condemned India’s actions of August 5, 2019, to scrap the special status given to Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir given under the Indian constitution.