Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, the illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Mohammad Yasin Malik, paying tributes to noted Kashmiri physician, Dr Abdul Ahad Guru, on his martyrdom anniversary has said that the sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs will not be allowed to go waste.
Mohammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Dr Abdul Ahad Guru was an exceptional personality who not only left his mark over medical, political and religious fronts but worked relentlessly on social front through his philanthropic works. He said people like Dr Guru are crown of nations and personalities like these stand as a symbol of glory for the living nations.
He said that the Kashmir freedom movement is represented by the blood of great intellectuals, ulema, social leaders, teachers, lawyers and personalities like Ishfaq Majeed Wani, Dr Abdul Ahad Guru, Professor Abdul Ahad Wani, Advocate Jaleel Andrabi, Dr Ghulam Qadir Sofi Turabi, Mufti Jamaluddin, Pilot Nadeem Khateeb, Advocate Ghulam Qadir Sailani, Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah, Maulana Shabbir Siddqui, Shamsul Haq, Professor Muhammad Ramzan and others.
He said that these great people were not only highly educated but well- established in their lives and despite all odds joined the ranks of struggle and embraced martyrdom. He said such personalities add to the pride of nations and are actually gift of Almighty to the nations.
Yasin Malik said that Dr Guru was first Kashmiri Muslim who started open heart surgery in Kashmir and wrote a new chapter in the medical history of Kashmir. His efforts for making Soura Institute of Medical Sciences well established heath center are well known, he added.
The JKLF Chairman said that nothing could subdue Dr Guru’s resolve and he continued his journey and achieved martyrdom on 1st April 1993. His brother-in-law, Mian Ashiq Hussein also fell to the bullets. He said that the fools who associate Kashmiri struggle for freedom with unemployment and lack of education should ponder over the life, struggle and martyrdom of Dr Abdul Ahad Guru who despite being highly educated and a reputed surgeon joined freedom struggle and laid down his life for the sacred cause.
Yasin Malik also appealed to the people to completely boycott the upcoming sham Indian parliamentary elections in the territory.
