Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 14: The death anniversary of the founder editor of Rising Kashmir newspaper, Shujaat Bukhari was observed at Tagore Hall Srinagar today.
Veteran journalists Syed Naqvi and former editor The Hindu Sidhart Vardarajan presided over the event in presence of hundreds of family friends, colleagues, academicians, journalists and students.
A book titled “Kashmir’s thin Red Lines” comprising articles authored by Bukhari and compiled by his wife Dr Tahmeena Bukhari was released at the event.
Bukhari’s son Syed Tamheed Bukhari also spoke on the occasion and thanked Rising Kashmir staff for following the mission and vision of his father late Shujaat Bukhari with vigour and dedication.
The “Rising Kashmir” and “Kashmir Media Group” announced Shujaat Bukhari award of excellence for the three toppers of the Mass Communication pass outs of Kashmir University, Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora and Central University Kashmir. All the three toppers were given gold medals which were presented to them jointly by Syed Naqvi, the chief guest, Sidharth Vardarajan, the guest of honor and Professor Syed Rafi-u-Din Bukhari, the host who is the father of late Shujaat Bukhari.
While Syed Naqvi shed light on the professional excellence and peace efforts of Shujaat Bukhari, the host Professor Rafi-u-Din thanked the guests and the audience for their attendance at the event.
Naqvi called him a truthful journalist and said that Bukhari had the qualities and the courage to side with the truth.
Vardarajan regretted that while police and law enforcement authorities have filed charge sheet in the killing of Gauri Lankesh, a prominent news paper editor in Banglore, the Jammu and Kashmir Government presently directly under the Central rule is still clueless and the inability of the authorities to even identify the assassinators of late Shujaat Bukhari is highly regrettable.
He called upon all the journalists within and outside Jammu and Kashmir state to unitedly fight for a fast track investigation for immediate identification of Shujaat Bukhari’s real assassinators. He said killing of two men by police can’t be satisfying for those seeking probe into the killing of Shujaat Bukhari as even a charge sheet has not been filed by the authorities in this case.
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