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Srinagar
In occupied Kashmir, the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik has reiterated its call for a complete shutdown in the territory on Thursday and Saturday to mark the martyrdom anniversaries of prominent Kashmiri martyrs, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru.
Special prayers would be organized on the days of shutdown for Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru. People will demand the mortal remains of the two martyrs from India for proper burial in the Valley. A march towards the UN office at Sonawar in Srinagar will be held on Friday.
The Joint Resistance Leadership while reiterating the demand for the return of the mortal remains of the martyred leaders buried in Tihar Jail premises said, “Although it is purely a human issue, India is very reluctant to this demand thereby violating all the principles of morality and constitution and in this way its claim of the largest democracy in the world is getting badly exposed.”
Hailing both Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru, as heroes, they said, “We are proud of them.”
“Maqbool Butt has a special status in the freedom struggle of Kashmir and if he can be termed as the first solider of the struggle then Guru later became a new milestone of the freedom struggle by setting a new trend,” Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik said in the statement.
It is pertinent to mention here that India had hanged Muhammad Maqbool Butt in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on 11th February in 1984 and Muhammad Afzal Guru in the same jail on 9th February 2013. Dead bodies of both the leaders remain buried in the premises of the jail.
