KASHMIR FREEDOM MOVEMENT WORKER REMEMBERED:

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Jan, 2019 ) : Jan 13 (APP):The 21st death anniversary of eminent worker of Pakistan and the Kashmir freedom movement, Mujahid-e-Azadi, historian, intellectual, writer and journalist Abdul Hamid Nizami was observed in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday with due solemnity and reverence.

Representative people from various classes of the society from AJK including social and political workers, journalists, writers and poets and workers of the Kashmir freedom movement prayed for the rest of the departed soul in eternal peace.

Fateh Khawani was held for the departed soul in a simple but impressive ceremony held at his Mirpur residence. Participants on this occasion paid rich tributes to late Abdul Hamid Nizami for his meritorious services for the Pakistan and Kashmir freedom movement before and after the independence of Pakistan and for the promotion of healthy journalism in the country including Azad Jammu and Kashmir through his high intellect and pen.

Late Abdul Hamid Nizami emerged as the active worker of the Kashmir freedom movement as he not only performed an active worker of the Muslim Conference but also particularly as the news Editor of "Sada-e-Kashmir" Radio located at undisclosed place in occupied Kashmir in 1947 meant for the promotion of the Pakistan movement as well as the Kashmiris struggle for freedom from the Dogras and India's tyrannical rule.

In 1947, he was arrested from Sheirgarhi in occupied Srinagar by the then despotic Dogra rulers and put behind the bars for an indefinite period for his "crime" of enlightening and raising the beacon of liberation and for working for the Pakistan and Kashmir freedom movement.

Later on he was released in 1949 as a result of the pact signed for the exchange of political prisoners and was sent to Azad Jammu Kashmir.

Late Abdul Hamid Nizami had also earned distinction of being the pioneer head of the Sericulture Department in 1951 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir after joining the AJK government Service as head of the state-run department for his vast experience in the field of sericulture since earlier before 1947 in Jammu and Kashmir State (now Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir). He was retired from AJK government service in 1975 on maturity of the stipulated age of retirement.

He was the author and translator of various books on the Kashmir freedom movement. Prominent among the books he translated into urdu include "Azad Kashmir", "History Struggle for Freedom of Jammu and Kashmir" and "Inside Kashmir" authored by eminent writer, journalist, historian and the staunch supporter of Kashmir's accession to Pakistan Pandet Prem Nath Bazaz.

He also brought out eminent urdu weekly of Azad Jammu Kashmir "Daur-e-Jadeed" from Mirpur (AJK) for the promotion of Kashmiris indigenous struggle for freedom highlighting the importance of early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue, till he breathed his last this day (January 13) in 1998.

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