Jammu Kashmir Editors Forum (JKEF) Wednesday paid rich tributes to Founding Editor of Rising Kashmir and renowned Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari on his 3rd death anniversary.
Bukhari was assassinated on June 14, 2018 outside his office at the Press Enclave in Srinagar.
“We join to pay tributes to a wonderful soul and an out and out gentleman. During his lifetime as a journalist, Bukhari always promoted sound journalism and his dream was to lay sound and strong foundations of journalism in Kashmir and throughout his life he worked hard towards that endeavor,” the Editors Forum said.
The Forum described Bukhari as a bold and articulate voice who was always full of ideas for the well-being of the people of his land, read the statement further.