Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : The 35th death anniversary of the prominent leader of Kashmir freedom Movement and former President of Azad Kashmir Ghazi Millat Col. (Retd) Syed Ali Ahmad Shah will be observed across Azadv Jammu Kashmir on Friday, March 21 with full solemnity, reverence and state honor, it was officially said.
Special programs have been chalked out by the organisers with the coordination of AJK government to pay rich tributes to the departed soul for his life time services for the freedom of Jammu Kashmir state from the forced and illegal occupation of India.
In his native city of Mirpur AJK, there will be recitation of the Holy Quran at the mosoleum of Ghazi Millat Col. ( Retd) Syed Ali Ahmad Shah at Sadat Colony Cemetery in Mirpur at 9:00 am and at 10:30 a.m on March 21 besides fateha for the departed soul.
Major ceremony will later be held at 11:00 a.m. Kashmir Center Mirpur, the same day.
State run Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MIST) and Syed Ali Ahmad Shah Memorial Society will host a seminar in the memory of the deceased at the mechanical hall of MUST the same afternoon.
Besides anniversary event will also be held in various local colleges and schools to pay glorious tributes to the departed soul for his heroic role for Kashmiris struggle for liberation of the motherland from Indian clutches.
General Secretary of Syed Ali Ahmed Shah Memorial Society Syed Qaiser Shiraz Kazmi while talking to media here on Thursday, appealed to all political and social, religious leaders, lawyers, journalists, civil society to show their awareness by participating in this national event to remember and pay rich tributes to the departed leader of the Kashmir freedom movement.