NISAR AHMED THOKAR
ISLAMABAD:JKLF activists held a sit-in protest in front of the UNMOGIP office in Islamabad today and urged the UN to exert pressure on India to handover the mortal remains of the JKLF founder late Maqbool Bhat to his relatives in Kashmir.
Speakers on the occasion highlighted the sacrifices of Maqbool Bhat who was hanged to death in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on this day in1984. Terming Bhat as the pioneer of the ongoing struggle, they said that his indomitable role and peerless contribution would be remembered for a long time.
Later, the JKLF leaders presented a memorandum to the UN officials seeking the intervention of the highest body to get-back the mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat.
The memorandum also highlighted the prevailing political and human rights situation in Kashmir and demanded that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon should send a fact finding mission to JK to probe into the cases of extra-judicial killings, unnamed graves, torture and killings of innocents.
Besides the JKLF stalwarts, the protest demonstration was also attended by the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) and several others including Ghulam Ahmed Bhat, Rafique Ahmed Dar, Saleem Haroon, Peoples League Chairman Sheik Yaqoob, Manzoor-ul-Haq Bhat andNsiar Mirza.
Meanwhile, APHC-M organized a Quran Khawani function at its office in Islamabad to pay homage to the JKLF leader. Besides the amalgam’s convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, the prayer function was attended by the APHC leaders and representatives of the Kashmiris community.
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