APHC observe First martyrdoom of Shaheed-e-Azeemat, Sheikh Abdul Aziz

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the first martyrdom anniversary of Sheikh Abdul Aziz will be observed across the Valley on August 11 in occupied Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media Service, special programmes would be organized to pay tributes to all those people who were martyred by Indian troops, last year, during peaceful demonstrations against transfer of Kashmiris land to non-Kashmiris.

Addressing a public gathering at Rajouri Kadal in Srinagar Mirwaiz said, “August 11 is historic day for us and APHC will remember senior APHC leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other martyrs of 2008.” He said that seminars, rallies and special programs would be conducted on the day and for it a programme would soon be chalked out soon. “We lost so many lives including leader like Sheikh Abdul Aziz during the agitation last year and it is our moral responsibility to pay tributes to them. There were others who also laid down their lives,” he added. The APHC Chairman deplored the death of an Irrigation and Flood Control Department worker, Fayaz Ahmad Butt in an electrified wire fencing the camp of Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Bemina. “It is tragic how Kashmiris are being killed in troopers related incidents but no one pays any attention to it. Such incidents will continue till Kashmir is not demilitarized,” he pointed out. Mirwaiz also flayed the killing of a father-son by unknown gunmen at Kellar in Shopain.