Syed Shujaat Bhukhari remembered on his first martyrdom anniversary:Kashmir club and KEG pay rich tributes to veteran Journalist

Kashmir Press Club Thursday convened a meeting and paid tributes to prominent journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari, the founding editor of Rising Kashmir.

Bukhari along with his two personal security officers was killed by unidentified gunmen outside newspaper officer at Press enclave in Srinagar on 14 July 2018

The management committee panel and representatives from various functional media associations of the valley expressed condolences in meeting.Special prayers were offered for the departed soul in the meeting. Many of the attendees remembered Shujaat Bukhari as a brilliant journalist and above all a kind soul. The members recalled that the slain journalist rose from a reporter to an editor of a newspapers by his sheer hard work. During the meeting the club reiterated its demand for legal closure of the case. It demanded the police should file chargesheet so that it doesn’t pass like other mysterious killings of Kashmir journalists. Bukhari was the eighteenth journalist who fell to bullets in the last three decades of armed conflict. It was also highlighted that the journalists in Kashmir continue to deliver their professional duties in very difficult circumstances. Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has paid rich tributes to senior journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari on his first death anniversary. A meeting of KEG was held today to commemorate the first death anniversary of Bukhari .KEG members remembered the contributions of late Bukhari that he made to the institution of media in Kashmir. While paying rich tributes, Fateh was offered to the departed soul.