Due to his journalistic activities, Maulvi Baqar was tied to the mouth of a large gun and blown to bits at Delhi Gate, said one of the speakers. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Delhi: There is a need today to popularise the sacrifice of Maulvi Mohammad Baqar, the first journalist to have been martyred by the then British government for his role in the 1857 rebellion through his newspaper Delhi Urdu Akhbar, said noted writer and academic Syed Asghar Wajahat on Friday. Delivering the first Maulvi Mohammad Baqar Memorial Lecture, organised by the Press Club of India, Wajahat, former professor of Hindi, Jamia Millia University, said that Maulvi Baqar's contributions in the field of journalism must be propagated through various languages to make the nation aware of his works.

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