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GNS SRINAGAR FEB 09 : Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone has called the execution of Afzal Guru a grave miscarriage of justice. "Gurus hanging is a ruthless political decision devoid of any sensitivity. This is yet again an instance of total disregard being shown to the sensitivities and perceptions of the people of Kashmir," he said. Lone added that the people of Kashmir have "serious reservations over the quality of legal defense made available to Afzal Guru". "In the context of the media-trial, Guru stood convicted even before the trial could have begun," he said. Lone said "in a brazen show of insensitivity, even the constitutional provisions of the procedure of considering clemency were ignored". "We see the National Conference, which is a part of the UPA government, as a willing co-author of the decision to hang Afzal Guru. The National Conference has been a common and enthusiastic script-writer when ever the son-of-t...

New Delhi: The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried at the Tihar Jail this morning, has requested that they be allowed to perform his last rites in accordance with religious traditions. The letter, written by Guru's lawyer ND Pancholi to the Tihar Jail Director General Vimla Mehra on behalf of his wife Tabassum, says the family learnt about the execution from national TV. "They were denied the basic human right of meeting Afzal," the lawyers said.  The letter says, "We are writing to you to please permit the family members to give Afzal Guru proper dignified last rites in accordance with the religious traditions...If you could inform us when the family members can perform the 'Namaaz-e-Janaza', we would appreciate it."  Namaaz-e-Janaza is the Islamic funeral prayer which is a part of the funeral ritual. The prayer is performed in congregation to seek pardon for the deceased and all dead Muslims.  Guru's family has also claimed i...

New Delhi: A scuffle broke out between VHP cadres and Kashmiri youths here on Saturday over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.   The incident took place this afternoon when members of VHP and Bajrang Dal gathered at Jantar Mantar and began distributing sweets to celebrate Guru's his hanging.  A few minutes later, a group of Kashmiri students came to protest against the hanging and a minor scuffle took place between them. The situation was brought under control by policemen.

            GNS JAMMU FEB,O9 : In the cabinet meeting on Monday decide and forwed the name of Parvez Dewaan to the centtre government  for the post of chief secretary , Sunil Dimple Urged and demanded TO the Chief minister Omar Abdulla to take up immediate matter w ith the center government and the prime minister for the appointment of Parvez Dewan as the New chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir , and to clear his name for the post of the   chief secretary  CS . He also appealed  the Congress Leaders of the state to take up matter with their central leadership for the appointment of the Parvez Dewan as   chief secretary  CS of the state.  

                                         Hanging of Afzal does not end it all:- Abdullah Gaznavi Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e- Toiba has warned India of a revenge attack against the hanging of Afzal Guru.Hanging of Afzal does not end it all. Any time soon India will have to face the revenge for this act," LeT spokesman Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi told the British Broadcasting Channel.Quoting the LeT's Chief Operations Commander Mehmood Shah, the spokesman said, "By hanging Afzal hastily and without due judicial process, India has once again proved that all the governments there exploit Muslim sentiments in order to gain power.

PAK FEB,09 :Reports reaches that Hundreds of protesters on Saturday rallied in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan administered Kashmir, to condemn the execution of a Kashmiri separatist in India.Mohammed Afzal Guru, a one-time fruit merchant, was hanged at New Delhi's Tihar Jail early Saturday over his role in a deadly attack on the Indian parliament i n 2001, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy appeal.Some 400 protesters gathered in Muzaffarabad, burning Indian flags and chanting slogans including "down with India, down with India's farce democracy, we will continue Guru's mission", an AFP reporter said.The rally was organised by Pasban-e-Hurriyat, an organisation representing Kashmiris who migrated to Pakistani Kashmir from the Indian-administered part of the disputed Himalayan region.Hurriyat chief Uzair Ahmad Ghazali condemned the hanging and announced that his supporters would stage a sit-in in front of the United Nations office in Muzaffar...

GNS Srinagar, February 09: Barring stray incidents of stone pelting at various places, the situation across the valley remained under control and by and large peaceful. 36 persons including 23 policemen were injured in these incidents.Police exercised maximum restrain while dispersing the peltors. 23 policemen including some officers, a SP, a DSP and an ASI were injured in the pel ting incidents.While tackling of the stone pelters, 13 persons received injuries. Among the injured three were shifted to the hospital for treatment while 10 others received minor injuries. Bilal Ahmad Gojri son of Abdul Rahman Gojri resident of Azad Gunj, Baramulla who was injured in his left thigh in Old Town, Baramulla was shifted to SKIMS where his condition is reported to be stable. Another person Firdous Ahamd Bohroo received injuries in his left arm in Sopore. He was shifted to SKIMS, Srinagar where his condition is also reported to be stable. Riyaz Ahamd Sofi son of Bashir Ahmad resident of Wanihama...

              GNS Srinagar Feb 9:  Describing the execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail today as disappointing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded the handing over of his body to the family for last rites. In a statement issued here the  party president Mehbooba Mufti said while the hanging should not have been carried out, the return of Afzal's body was the least the government could do to show its concern for humanitarian values. Mehbooba said we believe that whatever the requirements of legal process, there was a need for the government to take into consideration the overall political impact of this execution, which is why the option of mercy has been provided under our constitution. She said the PDP had, keeping this in view made an appeal to the president of India in 2011 to grant clemency to Afzal Guru and commute his death sentence into life imprisonment. "We feel that at a time when there is a need to...

JAVAID MALIK GNS SRINAGAR FEB,09 :The ruling National Conference is in the process of rejuvenating its cadres. Recent cabinet reshuffle and appointing new party functionaries looks like to be the first step towards gearing up for 2014 parliamentary and assembly polls. NC’s claim of entering into a “grand alliance” with its present coalition partner, Congress, seems to have unnerved the main opposition party Peoples Democratic Party. There seems to be no activity taking place in the PDP camp; it appears as if the party leaders and cadres have started believing that if NC enters into a pre-poll alliance with the Congress then the party has no chance of coming to power in 2014 elections. The party which appeared in the political arena of the state in late nineties and created a history by forming a government in 2002 seems to have gone in a deep slumber since the day Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hinted at the possibility of NC and Congress  fighting  2014 elections join...