Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : Azad Jammu Kashmir will commemorate the 35th death anniversary of illustrious leader of Kashmir freedom struggle and former President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir State K. H. Khurshid on Saturday – March 11 across the liberated territory of AJK with full State honor and due solemnity and reverence with the renewal of the pledge to continue the mission of the departed leader to bring the struggle for freedom of occupied Jammu & Kashmir state from Indian minacles, to its logical end.
Rich tributes will be paid to the departed soul in special ceremonies to be held under the auspices of Azad government of the State of Jammu & Kashmir besides his organization – the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation League in various parts of AJK including the district and tehsil headquarters in the liberated territory including all the three districts of Mirpur division.
Major State ceremony to observe the death anniversary of Khursheed will be held at his mausoleum in the state’s metropolis – Muzaffarabad – where Quran Khawani, besides a special function will be held on March 11, to pay glorious tributes to Khurshid Hassan Khurshid, the founder President of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation League and former Private Secretary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in recognition of his life-time services for the Kashmir cause including to fight for the achievement of Kashmiris birth right to self determination, the AJK Government sources told APP here on Friday.
The admirers of the departed soul will visit and place floral wreaths on the mausoleum of Khursheed – e – Millat in Muzaffarabad– besides participating in Quran Khawani for the departed soul.
Adequate arrangements were being made for observing the death anniversary of the departed Kashmiri leader with great respect and honour, the sources added.
An identical ceremony to pay rich tributes to the distinguished departed Kashmiri leader will be held in Mirpur on this occasion under the auspices of his Jammu Kashmir Liberation League to pay glorious tributes to the departed soul in acknowledgement of his life-time meritorious services for the Kashmir cause – the Kashmiris struggle for the achievement of their internationally-acknowledged birth right of self determination.
The ex President of AJK K.H.Khurshid had died in a road accident near Gujranwala on March 11 in 1988 when he was travelling to Lahore by public transport vehicle after attending a lawyers convention in Mirpur the same day.