AJK remembers Kashmir freedom struggle icon shaheed Dr. Afzal Guru on his 12th martyrdom anniversary with full respect, honour:

English , Kashmir - آزاد جموں کشمیر , Snippets , / Sunday, February 9th, 2025

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Altaf Hamid Rao.

MIRPUR (AJK): Feb. 9: The 12th martyrdom anniversary of illustrious young Kashmir freedom struggle leader shaheed Afzal Guru was observed across Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Sunday with full solemnity and reverence.

The valiant Kashmir freedom struggle leader Dr. Afzal Guru had been put to gallows this day nine years ago in 2013 in New Delhi’s notorious Tihar Jail in a fake charge of attack on the Indian Parliament – mere for his “offence’’ of raising voice for the grant of Kashmiris legitimate right of self determination through liberation of the homeland from long Indian shackles.

Special ceremonies to pay rich tributes to the eminent hero of the Kashmir freedom struggle were held in various AJK district headquarters including the State’s metropolis besides this lakeside city of Mirpur AJK.

Speakers while addressing a ceremony hosted here on Sunday by PPP ((Shaheed Bhutto)AJK Chapter President Ch. Muneer Hussain Advocat, paid rich tributes to shaheed Kashmiri freedom fighter for giving supreme sacrifice of his lofe for the cause of liberation of the motherland from long Indian clutches.

They described the sad demise of Afzal Guru as judicial killing and worst violation of human rights at the hands of fascist India and her occupational forces in internationally acknowledged Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir State.

They paid glowing tributes to the Kashmiri leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru, on their martyrdom anniversaries being observed on February 11 and February 09 respectively.

While paying rich tributes of shaheed Afzal Guru and Maqbool Butt the the PPP (SB) AJK Chief said the martyrdoms were an inseparable part of the ongoing Kashmir liberation movement and the Kashmiri people would protect the supreme sacrifices of their martyrs and take their mission to its logical end.

Speaking at a condolence reference held here Friday to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Afzal Guroo, Chairman Central Publicity Wing of Jammu Kashmir Plebiscite Front Azeem Dutt Advocate termed the hangings of Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Dr. Muhammad Afzal Guru as judicial murders by India. Dutt said that India did not fulfill legal requirements while executing the two great heroes of the Kashmir freedom struggle.

The Kashmiri leader said with all that brutality and cruelty India could not kill the freedom loving sentiment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir – “but strengthened the resolve and commitment of the Kashmiris towards their indigenous struggle for liberation of the motherland from long Indian illegal and forced occupation”, he concluded.