Srinagar, August 11 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, complete strike was observed, today, on the occasion of the first martyrdom anniversary of senior APHC leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Call for the observance of the day had been given by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference which was supported by the forum patronised by senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, the High Court Bar Association and other pro-liberation organisations.
The occupation authorities had besieged the Mazar-e-Shuhada, Eidgah in Srinagar, deploying heavy contingents of Indian troops to prevent people from assembling there to offer Fateha to Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other martyrs. Hurriyet leaders including Professor Abdul Ghani Butt and Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi were placed under house arrest. Indian troops had sealed all the roads leading to Pampore town and no one was allowed to move towards the town from Pulwama, Islamabad, Srinagar, Baramulla, Badgam and other cities and towns of the occupied territory.
Indian police personnel took into custody members of a delegation, headed by the Acting Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, while on their way to Pampore. The police also arrested several people including Hurriyet leaders and activists after subjecting them to heavy lathi charge at different places.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while talking to the KMS in New Delhi, said that the supreme sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs including Sheikh Abdul Aziz would never go waste and the day was not far off when people of Kashmir would succeed in securing their right to self-determination. The APHC in a condolence meeting held at its headquarters in Srinagar reiterated the pledge to continue the martyrs’ mission till its logical conclusion.
Addressing a seminar in Jammu, the speakers including the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, paid glowing tributes to the martyred leader. The Executive Directors of Kashmir Centres at Washington and London, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai and Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl in their statements said that Kashmiri people would never forget the services of Sheikh Abdul Aziz for the Kashmir cause.
Speakers at a round table conference held by the APHC-AJK Chapter in Islamabad deplored the undemocratic restrictions on the peaceful activities of APHC in the occupied territory. It was presided over by the Acting Convenor, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar.
On the other hand, one youth was martyred, three Indian troops including a Junior Commissioned Officer were killed and another injured in a clash in the Keran area of Kupwara.
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