How dare you threaten students for exercising their democratic rights?
Please note, you are the ones that will be held accountable when the time comes.
Genocide continues with the blessings of the most powerful governments in the world.
The children of Gaza continue to die.
Is this some sort of satan-worshipping exercise?
I wonder.
These photographs from 2008 capture Shabir Ahmad Shah paying tribute at Mazar-e-Shuhada. Today, he remains imprisoned, unable to offer those tributes in person. On Martyrs’ Day, we remember those who lost their lives and honour their memory with solemnity, prayers, and respect.
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.@MirwaizKashmir Pays Glorious Tributes to July 13 Martyrs
Condemns house arrest, restrictions around Jama Masjid and blockade of Mazar-e-Shuhada
Roads may be sealed and people confined, but the martyrs’ memory can never be erased
Srinagar, July 13, 2026: Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr. Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq, in a post on X, 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.
It is painful and unfortunate that the people of Jammu 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 Kashmir the highest place in Jannah. Ameen.
Salam to Shuhada-e-Kashmir.”
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.
It is painful and unfortunate that the people of Jammu 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 Kashmir the highest place in Jannah. Ameen.
Salam to Shuhada-e-Kashmir
13th July is a deeply significant and solemn date in the history of Kashmir. It is observed as “Martyrs’ Day” ( Youm-e-Shuhada) in memory of the 21 unarmed Kashmiri Muslims who were brutally killed by the forces of the Dogra Maharaja on 13th July 1931 in Srinagar Central Jail.
.@MirwaizKashmir Pays Tribute to Martyrs of 13 July 1931; Says Their Sacrifice Remains Etched in Collective Memory
Urges Jantar Mantar Agitation to Go Beyond Statehood, Include Restoration of Articles 370 & 35A, Rights of Political Prisoners, and Peaceful Conflict Resolution
Srinagar, July 10, 2026: Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr. Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq, while addressing the congregation at the historic Jama Masjid Srinagar, said that 13th July is upon us, a day when we recount the sacrifice of 21 innocent Kashmiris who were shot dead on this day 95 years ago in 1931 by the order of the autocratic rulers of the day for demanding basic rights, and laid the foundation for the long struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for human rights and dignity.
Mirwaiz said that this Jama Masjid bears witness to their shahadat when their funeral prayers, led by Muhajir-e-Millat Mirwaiz Moulana Muhammad Yusuf Shah and attended by tens of thousands of people, were offered here.
He said that since the time of Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq, there was a tradition to honour these martyrs by taking out a peaceful procession to the Martyrs’ Graveyard under his leadership, where homage would be paid to them and people would renew their commitment to peacefully struggle for the ideals for which they laid down their lives.
However, Mirwaiz said that, in recent years every attempt to honour the martyrs is thwarted, he is put under house arrest, and even the state holiday to commemorate their martyrdom stands revoked.
But their supreme sacrifice is etched in our collective memory for all times, and the people of Jammu and Kashmir will always honour them as their great martyrs and champions of their rights, he said.
Mirwaiz said that if the authorities allow this year, on 13th July, as per tradition, after Zuhr prayers, they will collectively go to Mazar-e-Shuhada Naqshband Sahib to offer Fatiha and pay tributes to the martyrs, Inshallah.
Mirwaiz also shared that he has received an invitation from Dr. Farooq Sahib, as was made public in the press by them, for the agitation at Jantar Mantar.
He said that after the 2019 unilateral changes brought by the Government of India, the State of Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded to a Union Territory and its constitutional safeguards snatched from the people, leaving them vulnerable and disempowered.
As such, Mirwaiz said that any effort by any political alliance, organisation or individuals working for the restoration of the usurped rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir , if based on sincerity ,is the need of the hour.
He said that besides ,it is the foremost responsibility of the NC government towards the people of Jammu and Kashmir, who gave it a mandate on the clear promise that, once elected, it would revive the pre-2019 status of J&K, including restoration of statehood and Article 370 and 35A.
Mirwaiz said that the agitation cannot be limited to the restoration of statehood, but has to be for all the seized safeguards and rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
In fact, he said, it should include the rights of our political prisoners and youth languishing in jails for years without trial or continued incarceration despite getting bail, and for people’s longing for lasting peace and life with dignity by conflict resolution.