APHC AJK leader Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has paid rich tributes to top mujahid leaders Muhammad Yousuf Chopan alias Zangi, his companion Abdul Rasheed Khan and Fayaz Ahmad Shah on their martyrdom anniversaries in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Muhammad Yousuf Chopan and Abdul Rasheed Khan were martyred by Indian troops at Botho in Bandipore on January 23, 2000. Fayaz Ahmad Shah was martyred at Barzala in Srinagar on a frozen January day in 1994.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement in Islamabad eulogized their struggle and sacrifices for the cause of Kashmir. He said that they dedicated their youth to the sacred cause of freedom of Kashmir and, therefore, will always be remembered. Muhammad Yousuf Chopan Zangi led the struggle until his martyrdom, he added.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that thousands of people were languishing in Indian jails, facing illegal detentions, life sentences in fabricated cases under draconian laws.
He said the new domicile laws forcibly imposed by the BJP regime in IIOJK is violation of the 100 years old Permanent Resident law. He said, as a result of the Hindutva onslaught against the Kashmiris, the Kashmiri society was insecure on social, political and economic edges.—KMS
