Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan appeals to declare 2018- Year of Peace
Ferozepur, January 8, 2018: To declare as “2018 -Year of Peace” and to make the easy visa policy to the citizens of Pakistan and India, a candle march was organized in Lahore at Press Club, Shimla Pahari, by the like-minded people with special reference ‘Peace is Possible’,
A march was organized in Lahore on Sunday evening with a message to both the countries – to bury their differences and to becomes friends of each other, said Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, Advocate and Chairman Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation, Pakistan.
He said the members of BSMF, Pakistan will lit the candles outside the Press Club at Shimla Pahari, Lahore on January 7, 2018. The slogan raised were – Hame Kya Chahiya…Aman, Visa police naram kro, Janata Ko Janata se Milne do.
Senior Advocates of Supreme Court and Lahore High Court, Chairman, Pak India Business Forum, Pakistan People’s Party participated in this move.
Added here, Qureshi advocate by profession in Lahore High Court, during his visit to Hussainiwala, Ferozepur on October 19, 2017, had appealed to both the countries to convert Line of Control into Line of Compromise.
After 86 years hanging of Bhagat Singh, Qureshi is presently pursuing in Lahore High Court, to establish innocence of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Revolutionary Bhagat Singh was hanged by British rulers in 1931 at the age of 23 in Lahore, after being tried under charges for hatching a conspiracy against the colonial government.
Written in Urdu, the FIR was registered with the Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928, at 4.30 pm against two ‘unknown gunmen’. The case was registered under sections 302, 1201 and 109 of Indian Penal Code. Singh’s name was not mentioned in the FIR even though he was eventually handed down the death sentence for the murder.
Qureshi said special judges of the tribunal handling Singh’s case awarded death sentence to him without hearing the 450 witnesses in the case. Singh’s lawyers were not given the opportunity to cross-examine them. But I will establish Bhagat Singh’s innocence in the Saunders case, he said.
