Pay glowing tributes to Maqbool Butt, Afzal Guru on their martyrdom anniversaries
Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders have said that gallows, illegal detentions and other brutal tactics by India cannot suppress the Kashmiris’ resolve for achieving freedom from Indian illegal occupation of their homeland.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC leaders paying glowing tributes to prominent Kashmiri leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru, on their martyrdom anniversaries, reaffirmed the Kashmiris’ resolve to accomplish the mission of their martyrs at all costs. They maintained that the martyrs are the real heroes of Kashmiris and a great asset of the ongoing freedom movement.
India had hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on this day in 2013 and sent Muhammad Maqbool Butt to the gallows in the same jail on 11th February in 1984 for their role in Kashmir freedom movement. Their bodies remain buried in the premises of the jail.
Illegally detained senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a massage from New Delhi’s Tihar jail said that the hanging of Afzal Guru was miscarriage of justice. The verdict against Guru, he said, was slap on India’s judiciary and its entire legal system that brazenly violated the fundamentals of justice by denying him the right to fair trial.
Shabbir Shah expressed the hope that the day was not far when subjugated but determined people of Kashmir will see the dawn of freedom. He also took strong exception to Narendra Modi regime’s eviction and demolition drive in IIOJK terming it as a part of conspiracy to cripple Kashmiris economically and render them homeless and weaken their stand on Kashmir.
Senior APHC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who in under continued house arrest, in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the world community and international human rights bodies to impress upon New Delhi to transfer the mortal remains of Maqbool Butt and Afzal Guru from Delhi’s Tihar Jail to occupied Kashmir for proper burial.f—KMS
