AJK PM pays tributes to slain kashmiri journalist on his second anniversary.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Raja Farooq Haider Khan on Monday paid rich tributes to veteran legendary senior Kashmiri journalist, Syed Shujaat Bukhari Shaheed on his second martyrdom anniversary.

In a statement issued here, he said Bukhari was a strong voice of Kashmiris. He said the Indian occupational forces tried to silenced the strong voice of Jammu and Kashmir people through his assassination two years ago in occupied Srinagar on June 14 depriving the state of a great intellectual.

The Prime Minister said his role as Chief Editor of Rising Kashmir's is a guiding star for all the state based newspapers. 'The motherland is proud over his unprecedented struggle of securing and protecting the rights of expression besides the birth rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir', the PM added.

He further said Shujjat Bukhari was targeted on the particular day when United Nations' Human Rights Commission issued the report on the Human Rights situation in the occupied valley. 'Bukhari and his friends had great contribution in it', he said.

Raja Farooq Haider Khan said Bukhari's...

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