Fahim Kayani hails Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan's move to name AJK University after Shaheed Syed Ali Geelani.

LONDON -- Fulfilling the demand by newly inaugurated Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan to rename Azad Jammu and Kashmir University after Shaheed Syed Ali Geelani is welcome and yet another step to strength the base camp for freedom movement in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK).

This was stated by UK-based Kashmiri diaspora leader Raja Fahim Kayani in a statement after Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan announced the important step.

'Kashmiris in IIoJK and across the world welcome this move,' Kayani said, lauding the prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

'Such initiatives only reaffirm the stand of leadership in base camp as well as Pakistan as it sends a positive yet strong message to our brothers and sisters in IIoJK that we will not leave them in lurch,' said Kayani, who leads Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK.

Geelani, the epitome of resistance against illegal Indian military occupation in IIoJK, attained martyrdom on September 01, 2021. He was under house arrest since October 2010 for leading resistance movement against India. His house was turned into a jail where dozens of Indian occupying forces detained him and barred common Kashmiris from meeting him.

'India can do anything and can go to any extent but the courage and resistance shown by Shaheed Geelani Sahab will be written in golden words in Kashmir's resistance movement against India,' said Kayani.

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