GNS SRINAGAR NOV :Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference launched a scathing attack on Omar Abdullah- led government, accusing it of being a "puppet" of the Centre. "The state administration is a puppet of the government...The reality is that it has no authority even to revoke a minor law," Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said addressing a Friday congregation at Chatpora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district. Apparently referring to the opposition of the army to Omar's intention to revoke AFSPA from some parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Mirwaiz said the announcements and decisions of this government are challenged by the army. "In such a scenario, how can this government claim to be a representative government of Kashmiris? It is nothing but a puppet...," the Hurriyat Chairman alleged. Mirwaiz said Hurriyat was never against the Indo-Pakistan peace dialogue, but backed out due to lack of sincerity on the part of the Centre to resolve Kashmir issue. "We have no objection in friendly relations between India and Pakistan. It is no justice that you (the leadership of India and Pakistan) hug each other, but leave us...," he said.
When the holy Quran was placed before Mohammed Maqbool Butt on the morning of February 11, 1984, he knew that death awaited him in the phansi kothi a few yards away. A high voltage bulb burning outside the grated doors of his solitary cell in the death row was indicative of the outside darkness. If he had had any hopes of living awhile yet, they were dashed by the presence of the” prison doctors. Jail superintendent, A.B. Shukla/had paid Butt a visit in the middle of the previous night. Shukla chatted with him for a long time but cautiously avoided any talk about the execution. “I will see you on Monday”, Butt’s counsel on record, the sallow-complexioned R.C. Pathak, had told him during a brief interview they were allowed on the evening of February 10. In answer, the condemned Kashmir Liberation Front leader, who was awarded the death sentence of the murder of a CID officer in 1966, had meaningfully remarked: “Do you think they will permit us a second meeting?” He was right! Butt was n...
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