Srinagar, July 13 (KNO): Kashmir’s chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on Monday paid tributes to the July 13 martyrs and alleged that authorities placed him under house arrest while preventing people from offering ‘fatiha’ at Mazar-e-Shuhada by imposing restrictions and barricades around the shrine and Jama Masjid Srinagar.
Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq, in a post on X, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said, “With deep emotion and reverence we pay our respects and glorious tributes to our first Martyrs, who 95 years ago on this day, by their supreme sacrifice laid the foundation of the people's struggle for justice, dignity and human rights. A struggle that continues.”
He further said, “It is painful and unfortunate that the people of Jammu and Kashmir are prevented by force from offering ‘fatiha’ and paying homage to the martyrs, as all roads leading to Mazar-e-Shuhada, Naqshband Sahib, are blocked and barricaded and restrictions imposed around Jama Masjid Srinagar, and I have once again been placed under house arrest.”
“Graveyards may be sealed, roads blocked and people confined, the Martyrs live in our hearts and our collective memory for all times. May Allah grant them and all the Shuhada-e-Jammu and Kashmir the highest place in Jannah. Ameen. Salam to Shuhada-e-Kashmir,” the post further reads.—(KNO)