The Shadman Chowk should be renamed to honour Bhagat Singh, who was hanged in Lahore on March 23, said World Punjabi Congress (WPC) chairperson Fakhar Zaman in a press statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday.
The WPC, he said, has been trying to have a monument erected in Singh’s honour for the past 20 years. Zaman termed Singh as the “hero of Punjab” and urged the Punjab government to rename the chowk to Bhagat Singh Chowk or name a road after him.
Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary, along with two of his partners, was sentenced to death for conspiring to explode a bomb inside the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He was hanged to death on March 23, 1931.
Zaman also denounced the new formalities that make it impossible for an ordinary man to get visa for India or Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2012.
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Fully Agree! High time that we support & honor Bhagat Singh.
@sikka
Yes as if India, home to the most brutal system of stratification known to mankind, caste system, has any face to wag fingers at others.... please.
Also, nobody in pakistan is asking for the dv sikka certified badge of honor.
What a wonderful idea and warm gesture! I think India also should reciprocate by naming a similar square or a bridge in the honour of "Saare Jahaanse Achchhaa" poet Iqbal!
@ usmanx - I would have felt proud if Pakistan had earned the right to honour Shahid Bhagat Singh.
@usmanx: Brother celebrate who you want to you are responsible citizens of a free country
strong text@dv sikka no one can force any one to join ISLAM, and we have not heard it from any GIRL ,herself.anyway it is not the topic.....it is about a true Punjabi son BAHGAT SING , who fought for his mother land against the force of the QUEEN and her agents like you l
Fakhar Zaman is the chairman of the 'World Punjabi Congress', so no wonder he comes up with such idea, and... I'm all for it! Bhagat Singh is one of the greatest sons of Punjab, and we should acknowledge his legacy, admire his stature and respect his memory, without any religious bias (by the way, there isn't any bias against him in Pakistan, to begin with, as far as I know.)
@dv sikka: Please, don't be a party-spoiler, for once. :-)
dv sikka,
does anything EVER make you Indians happy vis-a-vis Pakistan?
If we celebrate Ghauri - you complain we want to celebrate outsiders (even though pakistan has 35 million pushtuns)
If we celebrate Babur - you say we celebrate our tormentor (even most of his army was made up of pushtuns)
If we celebrate abadli - you say he was afghan (even though he was born in multan)
If we celebrate Bin Qasim, you complain we are trying to be Arabs.
if we celebrate bhagat singh, now there is a new problem.
just go away. None of our actions are meant to soothe your eternal state of anguish
@ PAKIPOWER - so are the helpless hindu girls who are being forcibly abducted and converted to Islam. Would you bear this kind of treatment for your sister or daughter.
We need to celebrate both Bhagat Singh and Porus (the Punjabi warrior prince that defeated Alexander)
strong text He was a leader and son of Punjab , and must be remembered........
Look at how many millions of hindus and sikhs have been ruined by Pakistan. Look at the way the minorities are treated in Pakistan today. Please leave Bhagat Singh alone. You will be insulting him by you action of naming samething after him.
What about the Bhagat Singh wannabes in TTP and BLA?
We have had enough of bombs and using violent means to achieve political ends. I do not support this. Surely there were non violent heroes of that era we could honour.
Great initiative. However, it would be interesting to see if Punjabiyat will have its say over religions politics.
This is highly condemnable coming from Fakhar singh zaman.
kudos for Pakistan.
I am all for it
Salute to Fakhar Zaman. Today, we need people like you in Pakistan.
Great spirit shown by Punjabis!!! Bravo!
Good move.Makes sense.