Jammu Martyrs Day reminds of great sacrifices for Freedom: Attique
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

RAWALPINDI: President All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan in a message on Jammu Martyrs Day, said Friday that 6th November is a day of remembrance in the history of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and reminds us of the magnificent sacrifices of those great Kashmiri Muslims who laid down their lives for the freedom of the State and its accession to Pakistan.

He said that the mission of those Kashmiris is still incomplete for which the struggle would continue. Relating the sad incident that had occurred on 5th November, 1947, Sardar Attique Ahmed said that it was the height of untold atrocities committed on the helpless Kashmiris by the Members of Sang Party and the Dogra Army.

According to an agreed plan, the Kashmiris desirous of going to Pakistan were told to board the buses lined on the road, near the Police Station where the Kashmiris had taken refuge. Nonetheless, these hapless Kashmiris boarded the buses in the hope of going to Pakistan. But destiny had planned another vicious subterfuge for them. Instead of taking them to the road leading to Pakistan, these buses were diverted towards the Jungles of Mawa, where the heartless and spineless Dogras and the Sangis lay in ambush.

As soon as the buses reached the outskirts of these jungles, all hell broke out and lakhs of unarmed and helpless Kashmiri Muslims were mercilessly gunned downed without any distinction between men, women and children regardless of their age, whose only fault was that they had opted for Pakistan.

Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan said that the seed of freedom sowed and watered by the sanguinity of these Kashmiris has yet to bloom and the mission started by their sacrifices has yet to be completed as the atrocities committed by the intransigent Indian Forces are ever on the increase. He said under these circumstances, we will have to move every step very cautiously with a well planned strategy and display extreme solidarity amongst our ranks.

To uphold the sanctity and the importance of this day, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan urged the Kashmiris all over the world to make a resolve and let it be known that the sacrifices offered by these Kashmiris for the sacred mission of the Accession of the State to Pakistan, would not be allowed to go fruitless.

He said that the sacrifices of these Kashmiris for the cause of Pakistan and the two nation theory are a beacon of light for the entire Muslim Ummah. Pakistan is faced with a host of problems today and these dangers can be dispelled only by strengthening the geographical and ideological frontiers of the country and providing durable and everlasting stability.●