Alltaf Hamid Rao;
MIRPUR (AJK): Jammu & Kashmir people dwelling both sides of the line of control (AJK and IOK) and rest of the world paid glorious tributes to the young martyred hero of the Kashmir freedom struggle Burhan Muzaffar Wani on his 2nd martyrdom anniversary on Sunday with the renewal of the pledge to continue the mission of the young martyred Kashmiri till its accomplishment through the liberation of the motherland from the forced and unlawful Indian occupation.
In Azad Jammu & Kashmir, mass public rallies and demonstrations besides special prayer meetings for the shaheed Wani besides other Jammu & Kashmir martyrs in all ten district and tehsil headquarters including the capital city of Muzaffarabad were the hall mark of the first martyrdom anniversary of the youngest Kashmiri freedom fighter.
In Mirpur, major rally to observe Shaheed Burhan Wani’s martyrdom anniversary was taken out from District Court Premises under the auspices of the National Events Organising Committee – NEOC, an umbrella of all social, political, religious and public representative organizations representing people from all walks of life.
A large number of people all segments of the civil society including traders, political, social and human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, teachers, students and private and government servants led the rally which culminated at the site of its beginning in front of the DC Office complex.
Addressing the rally speakers paid rich tributes to young shaheed Burhan Wani for bringing the Kashmir freedom struggle in the occupied state to the decisive stage through giving the supreme sacrifice of his precious life.
Speakers said that best way to pay rich tributes to shaheed Wani is to follow his foot steps till the struggle for freedom reaches to its logical end.
They said that ongoing indigenous struggle for freedom has reached at the point of no return in the Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir following the daily supreme sacrifices of lives being given by the youth including the street children who are determined to get the motherland freedom from the Indian bondage without taking care of their precious lives, he added.
India should read the writing on the wall and accept the reality about Kashmir’s struggle for freedom. Speakers said that shaheed Burhan Wani infused a new spirit in the Kashmir freedom movement by persuading the young generation of Jammu & Kashmir to take to the street agitation in nook and corner of the occupied valley to get the homeland freed from forced and illegal Indian occupation.
They said that the supreme sacrifices of the lives by the Kashmiri martyrs including the young shaheed hero of the present time of the Kashmir freedom struggle – Burhan Wani, will not be allowed to go in vain. They said that the mission of Shaheed Wani would be continued with full vigor till its accomplishment through the complete success of the freedom movement, he added.
Speakers called upon the international community including the United Nations to exercise their due role for getting the Indian brutalities stopped in occupied Jammu & Kashmir where the population was fighting for the liberation of the homeland from the forced Indian occupation for the last 71 years.
They underlined that since early peaceful solution of Kashmir issue was the key to the emergence of durable and everlasting peace not only in South Asia but the world over, it was enjoined upon the peace and human rights loving international community to move ahead for ensuring the early settlement of the issue through the grant of the legitimate right of self determination to the people of Jammu & Kashmir – as enshrined in the global commitment through the UN resolutions, they added.
22-year-old Shaheed Burhan Muzaffar Wani had secured the distinction to infuse a new spirit and more vigor among the Kashmiri youth to perpetuate the 70-year-old Kashmir freedom movement through persuading the Kashmiri youth for ‘Jehad’ – the freedom struggle through the social media besides to apprise the external world of the exceptional importance of the Kashmiris indigenous struggle for freedom of the motherland from Indian yoke. He was gunned down by the Indian occupational forces in Bamdoora Kukernaag area of the occupied valley on July 8 in 2016 in a fake encounter. India had announced Rs. One million head-money for shaheed Burhan Muzaffar Wani declaring him the most-wanted.
