New Delhi: The father of martyred Kashmiri youth leader Burhan Wani in a recent interview with an Indian daily has said India will someday realise that his son was a “freedom fighter”.
The father of the slain youth, whose death has sparked a cycle of protest-and-crackdown in India-held Kashmir that has left more than 100 civilians dead, likens his slain son to Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
“When Bhagat Singh was fighting against the British, they called him a terrorist, but Indians maintained he was a freedom fighter. When the problem of Kashmir will be solved, India will realise Wani was a freedom fighter, Muzaffar Wani said in an interview with the Times of India (TOI).
Muzaffar Wani said he “liked everything” that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
“He said Burhan’s killing had brought a new light in this movement of freedom,” said Muzaffar Wani.