A JOURNALIST MARTYRED BY THE BRITISH IN 1857
(Shahzad Shameem, Abbottabad)
MOULVI MOHAMMED BAQIR – A
JOURNALIST MARTYRED BY THE BRITISH IN 1857
There were times when Muslim journalists used their writings and Pen to defend
the Ummat e Rasul (sm) and used it for Jihad and freedom of nation. They were
true Mujahideen who fought with pen and died like heroes.
Lets salute the first martyred journalist in the Independence movement against
the British back in 1857.
Moulvi Mohammed Baqir editor of ‘Urdu Akhbar Dehli’ was the first journalist to
be martyred by the British army.
He was tied with canon and blown up for his ‘seditious’ writing against British
colonial rule in the First War of Independence 1857.
Unfortunately the brave martyr hardly got any recognition in the history books.
The photograph below shows how the “benevolent” and “humane” British army blew
up these unarmed captured Muslim civilians with cannon.
Journalists of today?? Innalillahe Inna ilehe rajeoon — intellectual and
ideological traitors and terrorists.