The Gandhara Hindko Board (GHB), a literary, cultural and social welfare organisation, took out a rally at Qissa Khwani Bazaar on Thursday to remember people who died when the British troops opened fire on freedom-loving citizens in Peshawar on April 23, 1930.
Haleem Jan Sethi, chief organiser of the board, led the rally which started from Misgaran Bazaar. The participants of the rally walked up to the two historic monuments erected in memory of the martyrs at Chowk Shaheedan (Martyrs Chowk). They placed floral wreaths on the memorials and offered Fateha for the departed souls. The speakers highlighted the sacrifice of the people who laid down lives resisting the oppressive British colonial rule.
Haleem Jan Sethi paid tributes to the people killed or injured in the incident and those who later faced imprisonment for offering resistance to the British rule. Other speakers said the April 23 had a special significance in the history of the Independence Movement. On this day the British soldiers opened fire on the peaceful freedom-loving citizens in Peshawar who had gathered at historic Qissa Khwani Bazaar.