MUZAFFARABAD: A rally was organized, today, in Muzaffarabad under the auspices of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir to pay tributes to Shaheed Muhammad Afzal Gaur and Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Butt on their martyrdom anniversaries.
According to Kashmir Media Service, a large number of people gathered at Shaheed Afzal Guru Chowk in Muzaffarabad and marched on the Srinagar highway. They raised high-pitched slogans against India and in favour of freedom.
The speakers, addressing the participants of the rally, said Muhammad Afzal Guru, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and other lakhs of martyrs are real heroes of Kashmiris. They said India can never weaken the freedom struggle of Kashmiris by executions, fake arrests and the worst use of black laws. India cannot suppress the freedom spirit of Kashmiris by committing the worst kind of human rights violations in the territory
The speakers also paid tribute to martyrs Syed Ali Gilani, Molvi Mohammad Farooq, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, Shamsul Haque, Ahmed Hassan, Zakir Rashid Musa, Zia Mustafa, Sajjad Afghani, Riaz Naiko and lakhs of others.
Pasban-e-Hurriyat Chairman Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Usman Ali Hashim, Syed Shoaib Shah, Pirzada Sultan, Syed Asif Gilani, Qazi Muhammad Khushal, Muhammad Ismail Jagwal, Syed Mahmood Shah, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Yousuf, Faisal Farooq, Muhammad Fayaz Khan and others also participated in the rally.
India executed Muhammad Afzal Guru on February 9, 2013 and Muhammad Maqbool Bhatt on February 11, 1984 in the infamous Tihar Jail of New Delhi and buried their bodies in premises of the prison.
