All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter senior leader Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has paid rich tributes to Sheikh Abdul Aziz on his 15th martyrdom anniversary on Friday.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement in Islamabad said Sheikh Abdul Aziz stood like a rock for freedom of Kashmir and laid down his life for the sacred mission.
He reminded the people equally of those 15 youth who the next day in the aftermath of the targeted killing of Sheikh Aziz had joined large protest demonstrations in the Valley and thus were martyred by the Indian police to silence the voice of the Kashmiri people.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said death of Sheikh Aziz amidst peaceful demonstration along with lakhs of Kashmiris on the Jhelum-Valley road towards Muzaffarabad to demand opening of the traditional public transport route, when the fanatic and fascist Hindu organisations had imposed total blockade between Jammu and Kashmir and North India to kill the Kashmiris by hunger.
As a result, he said, the Kashmiris en masse began their peaceful march towards Muzaffarabad and Rawalpindi to frustrate the nefarious designs of the Indian regime and its racist groups. He said during the march Sheikh Abdul Aziz was targeted and martyred on the spot.
Farooq Rehmani said the conditions had gone horrible during the last 15 years, as many more youth had been killed and the Jammu and Kashmir had been fragmented and illegally merged with India as a cut-piece of its union territory in violation of the international law, United Nations resolutions and promises and bilateral agreements between Pakistan and India.
He condemned all such unilateral changes and repressive laws which muzzle the voice of the people and at the same time treat the inhabitants of Kashmir as nothing more than dumb, driven cattle.
He said the pledge of the people to continue their legitimate struggle for freedom would never die down till the right to self-determination is achieved and the Kashmiris across the territory welcome the dawn of freedom.—INP
