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Who is Maqbool Butt?

Maqbool Butt said in a Special Court of Pakistan: “I have disliked self-praise but now when my role is being distorted, deliberately, I am forced to claim that at every stage of my life, I have not only supported the peoples struggle against exploitation and oppression but always actively participated in. I have consciously chosen [...]

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I am writing my biography: Yasin Malik

Eleventh February is remembered as Maqbool Butt’s death anniversary. Every year demonstrations are held in many parts of world. His followers and the people of Kashmir demand the return of his remains from Tihar Jail, where he is buried, to Kashmir. Kashmiri groups, on both sides of the dreaded line of control and all over [...]

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The Meaning of Maqbool Butt

By P G Rasool Regarding the revolutionary struggle, Eqbal Ahmad writes in Confronting Empire, “A strategy of moral isolation assumes that the adversary has based its own legitimacy on moral grounds.” For Eqbal Ahmad the strategy of moral isolation of the adversary counts high. In retrospect we can analyse the life and sacrifice of Muhammad [...]

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From Tihar Jail, New Delhi

Dated 7th August, 1981 To Mian Sarwar, a political activist in Srinagar Seeking help from God, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Dear Mian Ghulam Sarwar Sahib, Assalam-u-Alaikum I received your letter of 27th July a few days ago. Believe me, that epistle of love and the attached newspaper clippings have doubled the joy of [...]

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The Leader: Maqbool Butt

“Nations survive because of that (strong) spirit, that abiding passion for liberty, which according to our Holy Prophet (pbuh), “emboldens one to recite the Kalima-e-Tawheed (the call for truth) before a tyrant, and that too with the conviction that this is the greatest Jihad”.  —Maqbool Butt Of all the heroes in Kashmir’s struggle for freedom, [...]

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Maqbool Butt’s Statement in Lahore Court

[Ed. Note: The following statement is a historical document regarding the struggle for the right of self-determination of Kashmiri people. Maqbool Butt, a prominent pro-independence leader of Kashmir, was hanged by India in Tihar Jail, Delhi, on February 11, 1984. He passed most of his life in the prisons of both India and Pakistan.] Call [...]

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