Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK). (Parliament Times) : Kashmiris dwelling both sides of the Line of Control – AJK and IIOJK and rest of the world have started chalking out capacious programs with adequate arrangements to commemorate 33rd death anniversary of illustrious leader of the Kashmir freedom movement and ex President of Azad Jammu Kashmir State Ghazi-e-Millat Syed Ali Ahmed Shah across AJK on Tuesday – March 21 with due solemnity and reverence coupled with renewal of the pledge to continue the mission of the departed hero of the Kashmir freedom struggle till it reaches to its logical end.
Special ceremonies will be held in capital city of Muzaffarabad besides in his ancestral Mirpur city and other places to pay rich tributes to the departed kashmiri leader for his life time services to the Kashmir cause.
Major ceremony to mark the anniversary will be held at Mirpur University of Science & Technology – City Campus Mechanical Hall in his native city of Mirpur at 11.00 a.m on March 21 under the auspices of Syed Ali Ahmed Shah Memorial Society.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu Kashmir Justice Raja Saeed Akram, ex Chief Justice of AJK Justice (Retd) Muhammad Azam Khan, MUST Varsity Vice Chancellor Brig (Retd) Younis Javed and other dignitaries from various segments of the socety will grace the occasion attending the ceremony to pay rich tributes to the departed Kashmiri leader for his life-long services for the Kashmir cause and the uplift and progress of Azad Jammu Kashmir before and during his term as the President of the liberated territory of AJK..
Quran Khawani will be held for the departed soul besides the schedule special function to pay rich tributes to the departed Kashmiri leader, Syed Nishat Kazmi, Advocate, Chairman Ali Ahmed Shah Memorial Society and former President AJK Supreme Court Bar Association, told APP here Suday while unveiling the death anniversary programs to pay rich tributes to the elderly departed distinguished Kashmiri leader.
People from various parts of AJK will visit the mausoleum of the late leader in Mirpur Tuesday morning to offer fateha for the departed soul and other martyrs of Jammu & Kashmir state besides praying for the early success of Kashmir freedom movement, Syed Nishat Kazmi said unveiling the AJK-wide day long death anniversary programs.
Born in 1901 at old Mirpur city, late Syed Ali Ahmed Shah got his preliminary education in the old Mirpur city and later from the Mission School in Srinagar . He joined the British India army in 1923 as Lieutenant. Later on he performed an active role in the Kashmir freedom struggle after the retirement from 20-year British-India military service before and after 1947.
Late Syed Ali Ahmed Shah was awarded the titles of Ghazi-e-Millat in acknowledgement of his great services to the Kashmir cause and for the progress and prosperity of the liberated territory of AJK . Late Shah sahib remained the President of Azad jammu Kashmir from May 1950 to September 1951.