ISLAMABAD – Several people were injured when Indian troops opened fire onprotesters in Tehgam area of Kapwara district in Indian Occupied Kashmir onTuesday, the hometown of prominent Kashmiri martyred leader, MuhammadMaqbool Butt.
The protest demonstration was organized on the occasion of martyrdomanniversary of Muhammad Maqbool Butt, today. He was hanged by India on thisday in 1984 in Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail, Kashmir Media Service reported.
The troops arrested many protesters on the occasion. A spokesman for theJammu and Kashmir Liberation Front in a statement in Srinagar said thatShah Himaly Begum, the mother of Shaheed Maqbool Butt, led the protesters.
The participants of protest demonstration demanded the release of allillegally detained Kashmiri leaders and activists including Muhammad YasinMalik, Farooq Dar and Zahoor Ahmad Butt.
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Zahoor Butt, the JKLF leader and brother of Muhammad Maqbool Butt, in amessage from jail paid tributes to the martyred leader, saying that MaqboolButt believed in armed struggle as India had always tried to buy time inthe name of talks.
Rallies and functions were also held in different areas of Azad Kashmir,Gilgit Baltistan and capitals of some European countries including Brusselsand London.