Islamabad: Kashmiris observed the 6th martyrdom anniversary of popular youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, as Resistance Day. Burhan Wani, along with two other associates, was killed by Indian troops during a fake encounter in Kokernag area of Islamabad district on this day in 2016.
India martyred Burhan Wani but thousands of Burhans emerged, adding that India could snatch Burhans physically, but it can’t kill the freedom sentiment of the Kashmiri people, reported Kashmir Media Service.
Meanwhile, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir; Indian troops have martyred 1,697 Kashmiris, including 37 women and 122 young boys, after the martyrdom of popular youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, on July 08, 2016 till date in the territory.
According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, of those 189 were killed in fake encounters and in custody during the period.
The report said at least 29,892 people were critically injured due to the use of brute forces, firing of bullets, pellets, PAVA and teargas shells on peaceful demonstrators and mourners by Indian military, paramilitary and police personnel in the occupied territory.
It said that thousands of Hurriyat leaders, activists, youth, women, politicians and civil society members, including APHC Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, Islam, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Ayaz Akbar, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Yousuf Fahlai, Muhammad Hayat Butt, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Engineer Rashid, human rights defender Khurram Parvaiz, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, and journalists Asif Sultan and Fahad Shah, have been facing illegal detentions in different jails of India and the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has paid glowing tributes to popular youth leader Burhan Wani on his 6th martyrdom anniversary, today. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a message on Friday said that Burhan Wani penned down a new chapter in the freedom movement of Kashmir through his unparalleled sacrifice.
He said Burhan, an ardent student, was forced to leave books and carry guns due to unjust Indian oppression and has now become an epitome of Kashmiri people’s indomitable resistance against India’s illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. The Prime Minister said a nation having brave sons like Burhan Wani cannot be enslaved by the whole world, what to speak of nine hundred thousand Indian forces.
Saluting the Kashmiri people for their decades-long courageous struggle, he reiterated Pakistan’s every possible support to the Kashmiri people in their just struggle for freedom. He urged the international community to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute through plebiscite under the relevant UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.