PAYING HOMAGE TO MIRWAIZ MOULANA MOULVI MUHAMMAD FAROOQ SAHAB & ABDUL GANI LONE SAHAB ON THEIR DEATH ANNIVERSARY

I would like to pay my respect to Mirwaiz Moulana Moulvi Muhammad Farooq Sahab & Abdul Gani Lone Sahab on their death anniversary.

While Mirwaiz Sahab was a leading light of Kashmir's Sufi Islamic spiritual heritage, Lone Sahab was an important Kashmiri political leader of post Sheikh Abdullah era, who had very strong political views and ideology, for which he even laid down his life.

The murder of both Mirwaiz Sahab & Lone Sahab by "unidentified assailants" was a great loss to Kashmir and consciousnesses of Kashmiri people.They were murdered during the time, when the dance of death and destruction was at it's peak in Kashmir valley. Their murder shook the people of Kashmir and added another dark chapter in Kashmir's last three decade old plunge into never ending cycle of death and destruction.

While, there are several questions that remain unanswered relating to their murder, but one thing is clear that no individual should be killed for their political belief or views. Violence from all sides has already rendered Kashmir as a sick and barren land and if anything, both Kashmir and the people of Kashmir deserve PEACE. This was also the mission of both Mirwaiz Sahab and Lone Sahab, both of whom eventually laid down their lives in pursuing that endeavor. The real homage to their memory would be that, if the PEACE RETURNS BACK TO KASHMIR.