Islamabad/Srinagar: The acting chairman Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Mehmood Ahmed Saghar has paid rich tributes to Kashmiri liberation leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat who on this day in 1984 was hanged to death in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
In a statement issued here on Thursday Saghar while paying tributes to JKLF ideologue Muhammad Maqbool Bhat said that Bhat was an icon of resistance movement who sacrificed his life for the noble cause of freedom from Indian occupation.
The DFP leader termed the execution of Maqbool Bhat as a judicial murder saying that so-called democratic state violated the fundamentals of justice system by denying him the right to fair trial. Highlighting the supreme sacrifices of the JKLF leader he said that Bhat was a man of integrity and honesty who devoted his entire life for the collective cause, went through trials and tribulations and ultimately sacrificed his precious life in pursuit of long cherished ideals.
Bhat’s supreme sacrifices for the noble cause he said have inspired a new generation of Kashmiri youth who continue to strive and struggle to achieve the ultimate goal for which the martyrs had laid down their precious lives. He expressed the hope that the day was not far when subjugated but determined masses of Kashmir will see the dawn of freedom.
Meanwhile, in a separate statement from Srinagar, the DFP spokesman voiced serious concern over the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in Kashmir. He said that the Indian occupation authorities were hell bent on enforcing a graveyard silence in the region under the garb of newly enforced black laws such as UAPA. “Under this law innocent people are being arrested and thrown behind the bars without any rhyme and reason”, he said adding that now the occupation authorities have shamelessly booked Mushataq Wani the father of one of the victims who were killed by the Indian army in a fake encounter last month. Terming it as highly condemnable the spokesman said that the enforced silence won’t suppress Kashmiris aspiration and their political will to pursue the noble cause.
