ISLAMABAD: A roundtable conference was held at the office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter in Islamabad, today, in connection with the martyrdom anniversary of Jammu martyrs.
APHC-AJK chapter Convener Mahmood Ahmed Saghar chaired the conference while
AJK Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Rasheed Tarabi was chief guest. Farzana
Yaqoob, Raja Najabat Hussain, Ghulam Nabi Butt, Raja Parvez, Raja Bashir
Usmani and a delegation of Occupied Kashmir Journalists Association (OKJA)
also participated in the function.
The speakers on the occasion paid tributes to the Jammu martyrs and said the
Kashmiri people are observing the day with a renewed resolve to continue the
martyrs’ mission until their inalienable right, the right to self-determination, is secured.
Speakers and Hurriyat leaders said that the brutal army of India and the
cruel soldiers of Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh had committed atrocities to
deprive the Kashmiri people of their right. They said that the Jammu martyrs sacrificed their lives for a great cause and their unprecedented sacrifices would never be forgotten.
Meanwhile, a seminar and rally were organized by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir in Muzaffarabad, today, to pay tributes to the Jammu martyrs of November 6, 1947.
A large number of people, including leaders of various political and religious parties and elders of civil society participated in the seminar and rally.
Former Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan, Chairman of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, freedom-loving leaders Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Usman Ali Hashim, Dr Muhammad Manzoor, political leaders Shaukat Javed Mir, Javed Ahmed Mughal, refugee leaders Bilal Ahmad Farooqui, Muhammad Aslam Ingilabi Chaudhry Muhammad Mushtaq, Raja Sajeed Khan, Muhammad Sadiq Butt, Chaudhry Nazir Ahmad Saani, Raja Gulzarin, Parvez Durrani, Liaquat Ali Rana and Tanveer Ahmad Durrani addressing the seminar said that in November 1947, Dogra and Indian soldiers and RSS extremists brutally killed tens of thousands of Muslims in Jammu They said that the massacre of Jammu people after the Second World War was the worst act in human history in which nearly two and a half lakh Muslims were killed and thousands of children and women were abducted.
