Funeral prayers in absentia for Peshawar victims offered in Kashmir

Lawyers suspended work

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 17-Dec-2014

Funeral prayers in absentia for the martyrs of Peshawar school attack were offered all across Kashmir on Friday. Reports said that funeral prayers in absentia were offered in almost all the mosques of Kashmir. In Kargil, people also offered funeral prayers in absentia soon after the congregational Friday prayers. The participants offered Fateha for eternal peace of the victims and prayed Allah Almighty to grant courage to members of the bereaved families to bear this loss with patience.Reports said that Hurriyat G Chairman Syed Ali Geelani led the prayers outside Jamia Masjid Hyderpora in Srinagar. Hundreds of people attended and offered prayers in favour of Peshawar victims. Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Umar Farooq also led funeral prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar that was attended by thousands of people.

Scores of Contractors also offered funeral prayers in absentia in Srinagar while traders at Batamaloo also held prayers here and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association while expressing its grief and sorrow over the massacre of 148 also offered special prayers in favour of innocent victims and suspended their court proceedings.While expressing its grief and sorrow over the massacre of 130 innocent students and eight employees of the school, the Bar Association said they stood in solidarity with the families of the victims and the people of Pakistan.

“We want that all those people responsible for the killing of these innocent people should be traced out and dealt with severely,” a statement read.The association called the attack “a senseless and a sheer act of cowardice”.The statement added: “The people of Pakistan should, therefore, unite at this crucial period of time and come together to foil the designs of the people, who are against the solidarity and integrity of the Pakistan and its people.”It also requested Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf to shun the path of Dharnas forthwith, as “it is because of his senseless Dharnas in which he has involved the people of Pakistan unnecessarily for the last more than four months that the students have been attacked and killed”.

“The Bar feels that it was the responsibility of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide security and safety to the students of the school, but as the Chief Minister of the province was busy in Dharnas in Islamabad and other places, therefore, the barbaric forces found it easy to attack the school and kill the innocents,” the association rued.

The federal government, it said, must accept the responsibility and mend its ways and come forward to help the people and discharge the obligation entrusted to it by the people of the province. To express sympathy and solidarity with the families of 142 students and employees of the school who were butchered by the enemies of humanity, the members of the Bar Association suspended their work after 12:00 p.m. and offered funeral prayers in absentia at 12:30 p.m. in the High Court complex. (CNS)