Kashmiri diaspora recalls Nowsheri’s contributions, pay tribute to departed soul

BIRMINGHAM (PNI) Kashmiri diaspora on Monday paid high tributes to Maulana Ghulam Nabi Nowsheri, who passed away in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Nowsheri represented occupied Jammu and Kashmir-based Jama’at-e-Islami, in Azad Kashmir and in Pakistan.

He was 80 and left for heavenly abode in Islamabad on June 24.

Kashmiri activists and leaders in diaspora recalled his contributions and paid tributes to late Nowsheri.

Fahim Kayani, renowned Kashmiri overseas leader, said Nowsheri was an inspiration for young cadre of Kashmiri resistance movement.

“Nowsheri Sahab was a resistance luminary, scholar as well as an activist who was young at heart with a desire for liberation from illegal Indian occupation keeping his work alive,” Kayani said, addressing a meeting held in memory of Nowsheri, organized by Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK.

Recalling his meetings with Nowsheri, Kayani said the late Kashmiri leader kept “sacred cause of freedom close to his heart and always insisted on discipline and consistence in one’s words and actions.”

“Nowsheri Sahab’s life and work is a testimony to the fact that his love for freedom from India did not affect his life in exile,” Kayani said. “Nowsheri Sahab chose to live in exile than surrender to India. We pray for his heavenly abode.”

Muhammad Ghalib, president of Tehreek-e-Kashmir Europe, lauded Nowsheri’s role as a leader in exile “who always meant what he said.”

“Marhoom Nowsheri Sahab truly represented the aspirations of people of occupied Kashmir,” Ghalib said.

“His literary work, which reflects unknown aspects of Kashmiri freedom struggle, are invaluable,” he said, urging the younger Kashmiri generation to make late Nowsheri as their “role model.”

Nowsheri was working with All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Azad Kashmir for long.

Before crossing into Azad Kashmir, Nowsheri worked for freedom movement in Kashmir for a long time alongside Shaheed Syed Ali Gilani.

He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Nowsheri’s funeral prayers were held in Azad Kashmir as well as Azad Kashmir center, in Burma Chowk, Rawalpindi.