SRINAGAR (Kashmir English): People in occupied Kashmir will observe the martyrdom anniversary of prominent liberation leaders, Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq and Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone, and martyrs of Hawal (Srinagar) today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, seminars and Fateh Khawani would be organised and speakers would condemn the genocide of the Kashmiris by the Indian forces in the occupied territory.
People have been asked to visit the martyrs’ graveyard at Eidgah in Srinagar to offer fateha for all the Kashmiri martyrs.
Unidentified gunmen had shot dead Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq at his residence in Srinagar on 21st May in 1990.
On the same day, 70 mourners were also martyred when Indian troops opened indiscriminate fire on his funeral procession in Hawal area of Srinagar.
Twelve years later on May 21 in 2002, unknown attackers assassinated Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone when he was returning after addressing a gathering at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in Srinagar.
Jammu and Kashmir National Front
Jammu and Kashmir National Front spokesman Muhammad Hasib Wani in a statement in Srinagar, called for a visit to the martyrs graveyard in Srinagar, to pay tributes to Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq, Abdul Ghani Lone and martyrs of Hawal on their martyrdom anniversary.
APHC AJK will orgainise a seminar at Kashmir House Islamabad, today, to pay homage to all Kashmiri martyrs including Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq, Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone and victims of Hawal massacre.
