Jammu Martyrs Day marked with renewed pledge.

MIRPUR -- Glorious tributes were paid to over 600,000 martyrs of Jammu through the commemoration of the human history's bleakest day in the region: the Jammu Martyrs Day at both sides of the Line of Control and rest of the world on Tuesday. The day was observed to remember the supreme sacrifices of lives given by the Muslim residents of Jammu city and other parts of the region this day in 1947 in a week period at the hands of tyrannical dogra and Indian occupational forces and their paid armed fanatic Hindus and bandits.

Over 250,000 Muslim residents of Jammu city and adjoining areas were martyred on the single day of 6th of November 1947 by the despotic dogra forces led by Hindu fanatics / gangsters under a pre-planned conspiracy while they were moving for migration to the newly-borne beloved: Pakistan. The day is observed every year by the Kashmiris to remember the supreme sacrifices rendered by those over 250,000priosners including men, women, children and elderly Muslims who were mercilessly slaughtered by the armed Hindu gangsters including the Indian occupying forces and the dogra military troops near Jammu-Sialkot working boundary.

Like all previous years, the Jammu Martyrs Day was commemorated with the renewal of the pledge to continue the mission of Kashmiri martyrs to bring the Kashmir freedom struggle to its logical end. Jammu Kashmir people by observing the day renewed the resolve this year too to continue the struggle for freedom from Indian clutches. In AJK, special ceremonies including seminars and symposiums were held in all small and major towns of all ten districts including the capital city of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimbher, Bagh, Rawalakot, Palandri, Havaili, Hattiyan and Neelam valley as well as in various parts of Pakistan: to pay glorious tributes to the Jammu martyrs.

In Mirpur three separate ceremony were held to pay rich tributes to the martyrs of Jammu under the auspices of Jammu Welfare Society led by its Convener Khurram Jehangeer Pasha at Kashmir Press Club Mirpur, Youth Forum Of Kashmir led by its head Miss Maria Iqbal Tarana and 'Milli Tehreek Azad Jammu Kashmir' headed by its local leader Muhammad Aslam Malik respectively at MUST Varsity City Campus and Hotel Mirpur Grand Regency on Tuesday.

PTI AJK Chief and former prime minister Barrister Sultan Mehmood Ch was the chief guest at the ceremony, held to mark the day under the auspices of Milli Tehreek AJK who, besides other speakers including Aslam...

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