SRINAGAR: A complete shutdown was observed today, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to mark the 40th martyrdom anniversary of prominent Kashmiri leader, Muhammad Maqbool Butt.
According to Kashmir Media Service, India had hanged Muhammad Maqbool Butt in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on this day in 1984 for his leading role in the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom movement and buried him in the premises of the prison.
The call for the shutdown was given by All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and other Hurriyet parties.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders, including Mohammad Yousf Naqash, Fayaz Hussain Jafari and Syed Sibte Shabbir Qummi have paid glowing tributes to prominent Kashmiri leader Muhammad Maqbool Butt on his martyrdom anniversary and Muhammad Afzal Guru, on his 11th martyrdom anniversary, saying that the martyrs are the real heroes and a great asset of the ongoing freedom movement.
APHC leaders, paying rich tributes to Muhammad Maqbool Butt, maintained that the martyrs are the symbols of the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle against Indian yoke. They said the sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs will not be allowed to go waste and their mission will be accomplished at all costs.
They said that the Kashmiri people would continue to pursue the martyrs’ mission with more determination and vigour. They added that the freedom from Indian bondage is the only way to end Kashmiris’ woes.
Meanwhile, posters with pictures of prominent Kashmiri martyrs, including Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru, appeared in different areas of the territory. The posters read messages reiterating the Kashmiris’ resolve to carry their freedom movement to its logical conclusion.
Shabbir Shah pays glowing tributes to Maqbool Butt
Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party Shabbir Ahmed Shah has paid rich tributes to renowned Kashmiri liberation leader Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Butt on his martyrdom anniversary.
According to Kashmir Media Service, India had sent Muhammad Maqbool Butt to the gallows in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail on this day in 1984 for his role in Kashmir freedom movement and buried his body in the premises of jail.
Shabbir Ahmed Shah in his message from New Delhi’s Tihar jail, while paying tributes to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front ideologue Muhammad Maqbool Butt, said that he was an icon of resistance movement who sacrificed his life for the noble cause of freedom.
