Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Convener of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, paying tribute to life, struggle and martyrdom of a great valiant son of Kashmir -Muhammad Maqbool Butt – has said that no Kashmiri can ever forget his contribution to the cause of Kashmir freedom.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement issued in Islamabad on the martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Butt said that the martyred Kashmiri leader wrote a new chapter of his birth place’s history by his own blood putting lasting impressions on the struggle for freedom of Kashmir.
He said Maqbool Butt left Jammu and Kashmir for the sole purpose of freedom in 1950s and returned twice in 1960s and 1970s to achieve the ultimate goal of patriotic love for Kashmir, so it’s he who deserved best of tributes in the shape of martyrdom. “Although from every aspect of legal and humanitarian eye, his death was a judicial murder, but he faced it and kissed gallows to defeat modern India’s colonialism in Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
Farooq Rehmani said inside Tihar Jail, judicial murder of Maqbool Butt or that of Afzal Guru to satisfy collective conscience of Indian people, as the Indian Supreme Court judged it, was but a farce and concoction of Indian leaders, who were frustrated and defeated morally and politically before the unwavering struggle of the people of Kashmir.
The APHC-AJK Convener said hanging and burial of Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail for one and the same sin by new Indian settler-colonialists was and would continue to be a shame and stigma on the Indian judicial and political system, and its character. However, he said, the Kashmiri people neither surrender before the naked oppression and illegal occupation of India in the past nor will they do so in future.
Farooq Rehmani urged the United Nations to mount pressure on India to return the mortal remains of the two Kashmiri martyrs to their families in the Valley and resolve the long-pending dispute in line with the UN Charter and its relevant resolutions on Kashmir.
