By Altaf Hamid Rao

MIRPUR ( AJK): Sept. 18: Brussels-based Kashmir Council (European Union) on Thursday expressed deep sense of shock and grief over the demise of former chairman of Occupied Kashmir based All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) and ex president Muslim Conference Jammu Kashmir Professor Abdul Gani Bhat.The eminent Kashmiri leader, Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhat, passed away at the age of 89 in Sopore town of occupied Kashmir on Wednesday.

Paying rich tributes to the deceased leader for his great services which he rendered in the ongoing freedom struggle of Jammu Kashmir, the Chairman Kashmir Council EU Ali Raza Syed said, as an unparalleled advocate for rights of the people of Kashmir, late Abdul Ghani Bhat has proved himself an orator who always spoke of sense and wisdom on the rights of people of Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmir dispute, says a message reaching and released to the media here on Thursday.

Chairman Kashmir Council Europe said, Prof. Bhat was an intellectual, an academician and a visionary political leader of Jammu Kashmir and his demise is a great loss for struggle on the rights of oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir.

He said that in the history of Kashmir Prof. Bhat will be remembered for all times to come for his vision, expression, statesmanship and advocacy for the freedom struggle and right to self-determination of the people of Kashmir.

Ali Raza Syed offered condolences to family of late Prof. Bhat, in particular, and to the Kashmiri people, in general and prayed for utmost rest of his soul in paradise.