Srinagar, June 7 (KNS) : Awami Action Committee (AAC) paid rich tributes to its leader and sociopolitical activist Shaheed-e-Masjid Molvi Mushtaq Ahmed on his 18th martyrdom anniversary.
The AAC in a statement said that late Mushtaq Sahab was an extremely kind and compassionate soul who helped the poor and needy throughout his life. He believed in and strived for the party’s basic ideology of peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. He even bore the hardships of prison and interrogations in jail for his beliefs when in October 1965 he along with Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq was arrested and spend more than two years in jail.
Also under the present head of the organisation Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who continues to be under house arrest for the last three years, Moulvi Mushtaq worked side by side to strengthen the AAC and take forward its programmes along with the top leadership of the organisation as well as general workers, the statement said.
Meanwhile, the AAC has organised a Qur'an recitation and Duaiya Majlis on 8 June (tomorrow) after noon prayers at its central office Mirwaiz Manzil Srinagar in which prayers and Fateha will be offered in favour of Shaheed-e-Masjid, Shaheed-e-Millat, all the martyrs and the late leaders and workers of the organisation.
The Awami Action Committee has appealed to the imams of the mosques to arrange special prayers during the five daily prayers for the elevation of the ranks of all the martyrs including Shaheed-eMasjid and for the welfare of the people of Kashmir.(KNS)