By Anzal Amin
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has paid glowing tributes to popular youth leader Burhan Wani on his 6th martyrdom anniversary, today.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a message on Friday said that Burhan Wani penned down a new chapter in the freedom movement of Kashmir through his unparalleled sacrifice.
He said Burhan, an ardent student, was forced to leave books and carry guns due to unjust Indian oppression and has now become an epitome of Kashmiri people’s indomitable resistance against India’s illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Prime Minister said a nation having brave sons like Burhan Wani cannot be enslaved by the whole world, what to speak of nine hundred thousand Indian forces.
Saluting the Kashmiri people for their decades-long courageous struggle, he reiterated Pakistan’s every possible support to the Kashmiri people in their just struggle for freedom.
He urged the international community to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute through plebiscite under the relevant UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
According to details, Indian troops have martyred 1,697 Kashmiris, including 37 women and 122
young boys, after the martyrdom of popular youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar
Wani, on July 08, 2016 till date in the territory. According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media
Service, of those 189 were killed in fake encounters and in custody during
the period.
