A non-profit basis in Lahore on Tuesday slammed the federal government for scrapping a plan to rename Shadman Chowk after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and set up his statue there on the advice of a retired Pakistani navy official.
A non-profit basis in Lahore on Tuesday slammed the federal government for scrapping a plan to rename Shadman Chowk after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and set up his statue there on the advice of a retired Pakistani navy official. (HT File)
The Metropolitan Company of Lahore on Friday, in a reply to a contempt petition filed by Bhagat Singh Memorial Basis Pakistan chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi within the Lahore excessive court docket, stated {that a} proposed plan to call Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and place his statue there was scrapped in gentle of an commentary submitted by Commodore Tariq Majeed (retd.) .
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It stated that Majeed, engaged by the federal government in a committee to rename Shadman Chowk, in his observations claimed that Bhagat Singh “was not a revolutionary but a criminal and terrorist, in today’s terms as he killed a British police officer, and for this crime, he was hanged along with two accomplices.”
Addressing a press convention right here on Tuesday, Qureshi stated Majeed ought to bear in mind the speech of Pakistan’s founder M A Jinnah during which he praised the revolutionary within the central meeting.
“Jinnah not only praised the sacrificial personality of Bhagat Singh and his comrades but also stood in their support with them and questioned British law and order and principles,” Qureshi stated.
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“We cannot deny the fact that the sacrifices of the revolutionaries in the freedom movement gave a tough challenge to British rule, among whom the whole world knows the name of Bhagat Singh, born in today’s Pakistan, and considers his ideas important for the welfare of humanity,” Qureshi stated.
He termed the federal government report about Bhagat Singh “ridiculous, a tampering with history”, presenting the Islamic viewpoint in a distorted method.
“Bhagat Singh is a revolutionary born on Pakistan soil and we cannot let the history of our country be destroyed for pseudo-political purposes,” he stated.
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“Here it also becomes clear that in reality, the view that the colonial British government once had about Bhagat Singh, is almost the same as that of the representatives of the current Punjab government of Maryam Nawaz who are holding that he was a criminal, murderer, terrorist,” he stated.
Qureshi additionally stated his organisation is open to any authorities scrutiny on allegations of international funding.