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- PTI AJK Info. Secretary Ershad Mahmud condoles sad demise of Mir Sb.
MIRPUR (AJK) , (Parliament Times) : Illustrious elderly Kashmiri politician, Kashmir freedom struggle activist and author of series of books on earstwhile Jammu & Kashmir Stateand former President of Jammu & Kashmir Plebiscite Front G.M.Mir died in Abbotabad on late Thursday after prolonged illness.
He was 93.
He was laid to rest in Abbotabad on Friday, informed sources told APP here Friday evening.
Thousands of people from all segments of the society from Kashmiri circles from across the country including Azad Jammu Kashmir attended the funeral prayer.
G.M Mir, the close associate of veteran founder leaders of Kashmir freedom struggle Maqbool Butt (Shaheed) and late Abdul Khaliq Ansari, was settled in Abbotabad for past many years after having been bedridden since long.
Mir, an eminent nationalist, originally hailing from the Indian occupied Kashmir valley, had distinguished life-time career in the politics and struggle for freedom of the Jammu and Kashmir state from the forced and unlawful clutches of the Indian imperialism.
He struggled hard, till he breathed his last, for the liberation of the Jammu and Kashmir state and the early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations and wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir dwelling both sides of the line of control and rest of the world.
He authored series of books on Kashmiris just and principled indigenous struggle for freedom and the uplift, progress and prosperity of the people and the State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf AJK Chapter Secretary Information and illustrious Writer and Journalist Ershad Mahmood has expressed deep sense of shock and grief over the sad demise of G.M. Mir.
Talking to journalists here, Ershad described the death of Mir sahib a great loss to the Kashmiris just and principled struggle for freedom as he spent whole of his life for the Kashmir cause and the early grant of Kashmiris internationally-acknowledged birth right to self determination.
The PTI AJK Info. Secretary said that late G M Mir’s heroic life-time struggle for liberation of Jammu and Kashmir and for the due civil rights of the humanity in the State, will always be remembered and written in golden letters in the history of Jammu & Kashmir State.
