Srinagar: Condemning the killing senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani said that it was against the moral and human ethics to kill a person without any justification.
Regretting such mysterious killings, the octogenarian leader said that difference of opinion is no way a crime to kill a person.
Geelani, while paying his condolences to the bereaved family of the young journalist, prayed for his eternal peace
Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also condemned the killing, saying the act was unpardonable.
“Deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news of Shujaat Bukhari’s killing! Such inhumanity is unpardonable and condemned in the strongest terms! Proud son of the soil his death is a huge loss”, Mirwaiz tweeted.
He said Bukhari was an erudite intellectual, a fearless journalist and above all a selfless human who was deeply concerned for his people.
Terming this attack on a saner Kashmiri voice as barbaric, gruesome and direct assault on freedom of speech and expression, JKLF chairman Yasin Malik said that Kashmir has today lost a balanced voice at the hands of ruthless assailants and this is actually a moment of mourning for all of us.
