GPKSC remembers legendary kashmiri journalist on 2nd martyrdom anniversary.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Paying tributes to shaheed legendary seasoned Kashmiri journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari Shaheed on his 2nd martyrdom anniversary, the world-fame Kashmiri rights outfit - Global Pakistan Kashmir Supreme Council (GPKSC) has said Dr. Bukhari was a strong voice of the people of Jammu and Kashmiris - which was gagged by brutal India permanently.

Addressing a simple but impressive ceremony in head office of the organization in London late Friday to mark the 2nd martyrdom anniversary of the late Bukhari sahib, the GPKSC Chairman Raja Sikander Khan and President Kala Khan said that the Indian occupational forces silenced the strong voice of Jammu and Kashmir people through his assassination, along two of his body guards two years ago on June 14 in occupied Srinagar in front of his office depriving the state a great man of high intellect and pen, says a message released here to media here on Saturday.

The GBKSC leaders said that Shaheed Bukhari's role as Chief Editor of Srinagar's leading English daily The Rising Kashmir was a guide line for the media in and outside the occupied Jammu and Kashmir State. 'The motherland always stands proud of shaheed's life-time unprecedented struggle for securing and protecting the rights of expression besides the birth rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir', they added.

Speaking on this occasion, the GPKSC Chairman Raja Sikander Khan underlined that Shujjat Bukhari was made the victim of the targeted killing specifically on the day when UN's Human Rights Commission had issued the report on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir valley. ' Shaheed Bukhari and his friends had great contribution in it', he added.

He continued that Bukhari's long journalistic services, particularly his desire and endeavors to bring the Kashmiri journalist community from both sides of the line of control in the state gathered on a platform to ensure their due role for the cause of emergence of ever lasting peace between...