The acting Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Raja Haqnawaz Khan, while remembering Shaheed Ashfaq Majeed Wani, shaheed Dr. Abdul Ahad Guru, shaheed Syed Shabir Ahmed Siddiqi, shaheed Jaleel Ahmed Andrabi Advocate, shaheed Basharat Raza and the martyrs of Hazratbal on their martyrdom anniversaries paid very rich tributes to all the martyrs of Jammu Kashmir and to all those who have been jailed and incarcerated by India that includes the chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin Malik as well. JKLF will be paying rich tributes in different programs to be held in their remembrance in and outside Jammu Kashmir.
In a statement issued from the party’s central information office, Raja Haqnawaz Khan termed the martyrs of Jammu Kashmir as the crown of Kashmiri nation and expressed the commitment that JKLF won’t let these sacrifices go waste. He said that JKLF as an organization following the footprints laid down by Muhammad Maqbool Butt shaheed and Late Amanullah Khan under the dynamic leadership of incarcerated Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik will, at every cost, continue its national liberation struggle until the goal of an independent and sovereign Jammu Kashmir is achieved through the exercise of right to self-determination by its state subjects.
According to the statement, Raja Haqnawaz Khan while paying homage to the martyrs said that JKLF stalwart and first commander-in-Chief Ashfaq Majeed Wani shaheed was highly educated, competent and courageous enough youth leader of Jammu Kashmir who played a pivotal and unforgettable role in spreading out the freedom slogan of party ideologues, and the objectives of JKLF to every nook and corner of the State thus bringing in the biggest ever revolution of five hundred years of history of Kashmir. Shaheed Dr. Abdul Ahad Guru, the renowned heart surgeon of the sub-continent, a social worker and a great patriot, in pursuance of national liberation, after joining the ranks of JKLF represented the freedom struggle at diplomatic level, he added. Raja Haqnawaz Khan while paying tributes to Shaheed Syed Shabir Ahmed Siddiqi said that he was a religious scholar, a successful teacher and a best ever orator the State has produced who represented JKLF at his best at different political forums. Shaheed Jaleel Ahmed Andrabi advocate, a well-known lawyer and human rights worker of Kashmir, who represented the freedom struggle of Jammu Kashmir at international level, played an important role in highlighting the human rights violations perpetrated by Indian forces in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOJK) at international forums of human rights, Khan added. He said Commander Basharat Raza and martyrs of Hazratbal shrine including the thousands of other martyrs of Jammu Kashmir especially the sacrifices of Kashmiri youth have played a vital role in keeping the flame of freedom slogan alive.
According to the party spokesman, Raja Haqnawa Khan while condemning the continued Indian State terrorism in IOJK said that BJP led Hindutwa and fascist government of India, after Gujrat massacres is now hell-bent upon making the freedom loving people of Jammu Kashmir in particular and the Muslims of India in general, the targets of their communal politics. He condemned the threats being extended at official level by the so called local administration to the common freedom loving masses of Jammu Kashmir and said that the people of the entire State, being at war with the government of India, have so far gone through the highest level of suppression. While appreciating the valiant people of Jammu Kashmir in resisting the Indian onslaught, he said that the people of the State and its leadership will never surrender or compromise on the national liberation of Jammu Kashmir State. He appealed for an impartial probe undertaken by the international community to bring to the fore the ground realities of use of brute force, use of black laws and injustices met with the local people at the hands of Indian military in IOJK.
Raja Haqnawa Khan lauded the role being played by all those who are unlawfully behind the bars in Indian jails for years together and are enduring hardships for the just cause of freedom movement. While condemning the negative and nefarious propaganda being played by Indian media at the behest Hindutwa government of India against Muhammad Yasin Malik, JKLF and the freedom movement, he said that this false propaganda for sure won’t long last, and emphasized that the BJP government is actually following the political agenda to meet.