APHC-AJK seminar pay tribute to Maqbool Butt, Afzal Guru

Islamabad: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter organized a seminar in its office in Islamabad to pay tribute to prominent Kashmiri leaders Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Muhammad Afzal Guru on their martyrdom anniversaries.

India had hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on 9th February, 2013 and another prominent Kashmiri leader Muhammad Maqbool Butt in the same jail on 11th February, 1984. Their bodies remain buried in the premises of the jail.

APHC-AJK Convener Ghulam Muhammad Safi chaired the seminar while it was attended among others by senior Hurriyat leaders Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Mir Tahir Masood, Shamim Shaal, Syed Ijaz Rahmani, Javed Iqbal Butt, Raja Khadim Hussain, Haji Muhammad Sultan, Nisar Mirza, Zahid Safi, Imtiaz Wani, Mian Muzaffar, Sheikh Abdul Majid, Muhammad Ashraf Dar, Manzoor Ahmed Dar, Syed Gulshan, Adeel Mushtaq Wani, Sanaullah Dar, Abdul Majeed Lone, Khurshid Mir, Rais Mir, Abdul Majeed Mir and Qazi Imran.

The speakers on the occasion paid rich tributes to Shaheed Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Afzal Guru and said the Kashmiris’ freedom sentiment can never be suppressed by hangings, illegal detentions and other cruel tactics.

They said the incomplete mission of Kashmiri martyrs, including Maqbool Butt and Afzal Guru will be accomplished at all costs. They said the martyrs are the real heroes of Kashmiris and a great asset of the freedom movement.

The speakers said hanging Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru was a miscarriage of justice, adding the hanging of Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Afzal Guru is a slap in the face to the Indian judiciary and its entire justice system. They said that the day is not far when the oppressed Kashmiris will see the dawn of freedom.

The speakers urged the international community and international human rights organizations to put pressure on India to hand over the bodies of Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru to the Kashmiris.

They said the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir are struggling valiantly for a legitimate cause for which they have been making unprecedented sacrifices for seven decades.

They said that the best way to pay tribute to the Kashmiri martyrs is to continue their mission.