Nayeem Khan remembers Shaheed Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru
Srinagar: Senior APHC leader Nayeem Ahmed Khan on Wednesday paid eulogizing tributes to renowned liberation leader Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and Muhammad Afzal Guru on their martyrdom anniversaries.
In a message from Tihar Jail, the incarcerated Front Chairman while highlighting the martyred leader’s supreme sacrifices and indomitable role said, “The entire Kashmiri nation is proud of the great son of the soil who preferred to kiss the gallows rather than compromising his ideals”.
Terming the hanging of the renowned liberation leader as murder of justice Khan who is languishing in Tihar jail for the past five years said that rather than dispensing justice the Indian judiciary and judges have been working on the whims and fantasy of the Indian rulers. “Over the past 70 years Kashmiris as a nation have been facing the wrath of prejudice and political vengeance at the hands of occupation authorities”, the Front chief said adding that the shameful execution of Bhat and Guru was a big blot on the face of India’s falling justice system.
Recalling his family’s close association with Shaheed Maqbool Bhat, the Front chief said, “My father has had the privilege and honour to work with Shaheed Maqbool Bhat. The duo had worked together for years in the mid-sixties and endured many hardships and imprisonments”.
Terming Shaheed Maqbool Bhat as a man of integrity, he said that Bhat was an icon of Kashmiris’ resistance against Indian colonialism. “His tireless struggle for the national cause would continue to inspire coming generations”, he added.
Remembering the sacrifices of Shaheed Afzal Guru, he said, that Guru’s hanging was a clear case of judicial murder. The verdict against Guru, he said, left India’s judiciary exposed at international level.
Referring to Kashmiris’ commitment to the cause Nayeem Khan reiterated Kashmiris’ pledge to uphold the mission of martyrs despite all odds.
It is worth to mention here that India hanged Muhammad Maqbool Bhat to death on 11th February in 1984 in the New Delhi’s Tihar jail for his role in the Kashmir freedom movement. Whereas, Muhammad Afzal Guru who was falsely implicated in the Indian parliament attack case was awarded death penalty and later hanged to death in the same jail on 9th February 2013. The mortal remains of both the martyred leaders remain buried in the premises of the jail.
