Summary:
Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah had paid tributes to Bhagat Singh in Delhi assembly on September 4, 1929, and Bhagat Singh is hero to many Pakistanis.” Many others landed at Bhagat Singh’s birthplace at Bangay village in Faislabad and remembered the supreme sacrifices made by Bhagat Singh in the pre-partition India.Lahore-based Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation organised the commemoration day at Shadman Chowk and lit candles in the memory of the revolutionaries. Not fearing threats of religious groups, people in large numbers descended at Shadman Chowk to pay tributes to the trio. Foundation chief patron and Pakistan supreme court lawyer Abdul Rashid Qureshi and his son Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi termed Bhagat Singh not only martyr of India but of the sub continent. “We too have every right over the memory of Bhagat Singh as the freedom fighter was not only born in Pakistan, but had spent most of the time of his short but meaningful life at Lahore..