In Occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed tomorrow and on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversaries of liberation leaders, Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Butt, to reaffirm the pledge to carry forward the martyrs’ mission and the freedom movement.

Call for the shutdown has been given by All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, the Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other pro-freedom organizations.

India had hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru on 9th of February in 2013 in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail and Muhammad Maqbool Butt on 11th February in 1984 in the same jail for their role in the Kashmir freedom movement. Their bodies remain buried in the premises of the jail.

In their separate statements, the Hurriyat leaders described the executions of Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Butt as the most shameful acts of Indian government and a blot on the so-called democratic face of India.

They said India sent the liberation leaders to gallows only to subdue the voice of Kashmiri people but miserably failed in its nefarious designs.