‘bhagat Singh, A Pakistani Shaheed’

[Mehtab Singh]

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ISLAMABAD: The movement launched by lawyers and rights activists in Pakistan against the now-deposed Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry's suspension in March has been compared to revolutionary Bhagat Singh's struggle to oust the British.

At a seminar to mark the birth centenary of Bhagat Singh, writer Zahida Hina went a step further and described him as a "Pakistani Shaheed." Referring to the movement launched by lawyers to protest the removal of deposed judges, she said in Karachi last evening, "This is similar to Bhagat Singh's movement to oust the British."

Singh was born in Lyallpur, now Faisalabad, in 1907. He was hanged by the British in Lahore for shooting a police officer in 1931.

Stating that it was a great coincidence that the 150th anniversary of the 1857 War of Independence also falls this year, she exhorted Pakistanis to commemorate Singh's centenary as he was a `Pakistani' martyr.

Hina also accused the Pakistani Government of trying to "co-opt" Bhagat Singh's legacy.

"The present Governor of Punjab, a retired military man, has claimed that he was inspired by Bhagat Singh and has announced that a memorial commemorating the fiery young revolutionary would be unveiled in Lahore," the writer said, adding, "This is an insult - it is like Hitler unveiling a statue of Mandela or Gandhi."

"He was the pied piper of Punjab whose flute played the tune of freedom. He was not a bloodthirsty terrorist nor was he power-hungry. He was a thinker," she said of Bhagat Singh.

[SaRpAnCh]

He also died for the freedom of Pakistan

[singh1986]

though if he was alive and if it is beleived he was a communist, dont you beleive he would have preferred Pakistan's style of Goverement, or be with communist rebels fighting the current Indian Administration?

I doubt he would have liked the current Indian Govt. People in India keep going on about how he died for India; From what Ive read and I dont think he would have accepted that.

[guptveer1469]

Sarpanch is right

but her we go again!! Bhagat singh was communist but some days before his execution he met Bhai Randhir Singh Ji and he changed his mind. He even had written a letter demanding that he wanted to become amritdhari. It howhever was rehected. So I think if he were alive now, he wud be fighting for Khalistan. But then again who knows?

[S1ngh]

After Bhai Randhir Singh, Bhagat Singh was changed man and the article called "Why I am Atheist" is not written by Bhagat Singh but was the propaganda doctored by Arya Samaji org. of that time.

If you read some not so famous non-doctored liberal books, you will get the true picture because its written directly by those who were in jail. Most of them are in Punjab as they never got chance or fame of getting it translated in other languages.

Read description of the jail milk sewadar "Freedom Fighter Baba Harnam Singh". Book is "Shama Baldi Rahi, by Pritam Singh" (in punjabi)

[akaal ustat]

where would i find this book bhaji

[guptveer1469]

Bhagat Singh became a Sikh in the last days of his life... He ven wanted to take amrit.. But British didn't allowed him.

[B4ND4]

Why does it seem that we just talk about Bhagat Singh all the time? Am not saying its wrong or anything but whenever these topics surface only Bhagat Singh's name gets a mention.

There were RajGuru and Sukhdev with him too. No one talks about em. I haven't heard anyone talk about them on the forum <_<