Remembering Maqbool Bhat

Muhammad Maqbool Bhat (February 18, 1938 - February 11, 1984): Muhammad Maqbool Bhat was born in village Trehgam of district Kupwara in the year of 1938 and was viciously buried in Tihar jail, Delhi. He was first wrongfully imprisoned by Pakistan and later unlawfully noosed by India exactly one week before his 46th birthday, while awaiting trial for a case registered against him. Today, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat is known as the Shaheed-e-Azam and Shaheed-e-Kashmir. He was the first Kashmiri to be judicially murdered on Indian soil - making him the first authentic martyr of the Kashmiri independence movement.