Today, 10th April 2021, marks the 68th birth anniversary of Shaheed Comrade Nazeer Abbasi. He was the the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was tortured to death on August 9, 1980 during General Zia’s Regime.
On his initiative, several progressive student organizations merged together to revive Democratic Students Federation (DSF) though Comrade Nazeer was tortured to death even before the formal announcement of DSF. He was picked up from Karachi by Law enforcement agencies in July 1980. He was severely tortured for many days, this all could not break his soul but sadly his body couldn’t sustain the inhumane torture and Comrade Nazeer Abbasi embraced martyrdom on 9th August 1980. His body was not handed over to his family and was quietly buried at the Sakhi Hasan graveyard. Witnesses (EDHI) who saw his body testified, “He seemed to have been through extreme torture, there were torture marks and signs of shattered bones.”Today he may not be physically present among us but his ideology leads us in the struggle for the salvation of the oppressed.
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