Srinagar, May 21 (UNI) Remembering Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone on their death anniversaries on Tuesday, former IAS topper-turned chief of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM) Shah Faesal said Kashmir has lost these two iconic light-houses to bullets of unknown gunmen.
The Mirwaiz, father of chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference (HC) Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq was assassinated by unidentified gunmen on this day in 1990 in his Nigeen house. Peoples Conference (PC), a constituent of separatist HC chairman Abdul Gani Lone was killed in 2002 gunmen when he was about to leave for home after paying tributes to Mirwaiz at Eidgh in the down town on this day.