Srinagar, Nov 07 (KNS): While expressing deep shock, grief and sorrow over the death of veteran and a legend journalist Late Ved Bhasin, Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani said he was a fearless, bold, realistic and an independent journalist and a liberal politician.
In a statement issued to KNS, Geelani said that “my relation with Ved Bhasin dates back to the Mujahid Manzil when he used to come to Late Moulana Masoodi Sahab and I used to listen their conversations like a student”.
“Despite being of the same age which I came to know today, I always treated Ved Bhasin Sahab as my big brother,” he said.
Geelani said that Ved Bhasin was very affectionate, kind and friendly with me and like Om Prakash Saraf and Kuldeep Nair, “I was having very close and family relations with him”.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelGeelani in a very emotional tune said that “I can’t forget the kindness of Ved Bhasin Sahab when in 2002 Mr. Ifthikhar sahib was arrested and detained in Tihar jail for 7 months just being my son-in-law and at that time Iftikar Sahab was Delhi bureau chief of Kashmir Times. The love, affection and kindness he showed with my daughter and my grand children at that time, is the best model of human brotherhood”.
Geelani said: “Whenever I visit Jammu, I every time used to meet him there.” (KNS)