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SRINAGAR: The entire Kashmir
valley has been placed under
strict curfew in the wake of the
hanging of Parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru in the wee
hours of Saturday. The authorities in Srinagar and
other major towns of the valley
announced through
loudspeakers to remain indoors
after the Fajr Nimaz. Heavy
deployment of para-military and police was placed in the sensitive
areas of Maisuma locality in
uptown besides areas in
downtown, reports said. The authorities have also closed the Srinagar-
Jammu national highway for the day to avert any
trouble. Large number of para-military personnel
have deployed outside the houses of the
separatist leaders to prevent them from coming
out on the streets to instigate trouble in the valley, the reports said. Reports said Srinagar residents are informing one
another on phone about the imposition of
curfew in the valley and trying to know the
situation in their respective areas. Incidentally, the hanging of Guru came two days
ahead of "martyr's day" observed by Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front on February 11 when
their founder leader Maqbool Bhat was hanged to
death in Tihar jail in 1983 for being guilty of
killing a bank manger in the border district of Kupwara in a bank robbery case. The separatist leaders and the mainstream
politicians in Kashmir were averse to Guru's
hanging. Incidentally, chief minister Omar
Abdullah was in New Delhi on Friday and reports
said that he was himself caught unawares about
the rejection of the mercy plea of Afzal Guru by President Pranab Mukherjee. Afzal Guru, who hailed from Sopore in north
Kashmir was a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist and
was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in
2002 after he was found guilty of facilitating the
2001 Parliament attack. Nine people including
security men and officials of Parliament were killed when Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists
attacked Parliament in 2001 and Afzal Guru was
held responsible for conspiracy and helping the
perpetrators. Several Kashmiris based in New
Delhi were picked up for questioning but later on
released after court observed that they were not involved in the crime. Afzal Guru was initially a member of the JKLF
terrorist outfit. Guru, according to his own
interviews with various newspapers, had
admitted that he rejoined militancy after one
Tariq Ahmad of Anantnag motivated him to join
'jehad' for the liberation of Kashmir by launching attacks on various embassies and Indian
institutions. Tariq, according to Guru's own
version introduced him to one Jaish-e-
Mohammad terrorist in Ghaziabad in Pakistan,
who motivated him to launch an attack on the
Parliament. The Supreme Court had ordered hanging of Guru
in 2004, after he was charged with facilitating
the attack on Parliament in 2001. But Guru's wife
made an appeal to the President for mercy after
his execution was scheduled in 2006. Till then the
mercy petition was pending with the President's office. Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had
promised that he would dispose of the file soon
after he took over the charge of the ministry last
year. The reports from New Delhi said that President
Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy plea on
January 23, 2013 and the hanging took place at 8
am on Saturday, inside the Tihar jail where the
convict was lodged, sources added.
http://www.timesofindia.com/india/A...sed-to-avert-trouble/articleshow/18413123.cms
valley has been placed under
strict curfew in the wake of the
hanging of Parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru in the wee
hours of Saturday. The authorities in Srinagar and
other major towns of the valley
announced through
loudspeakers to remain indoors
after the Fajr Nimaz. Heavy
deployment of para-military and police was placed in the sensitive
areas of Maisuma locality in
uptown besides areas in
downtown, reports said. The authorities have also closed the Srinagar-
Jammu national highway for the day to avert any
trouble. Large number of para-military personnel
have deployed outside the houses of the
separatist leaders to prevent them from coming
out on the streets to instigate trouble in the valley, the reports said. Reports said Srinagar residents are informing one
another on phone about the imposition of
curfew in the valley and trying to know the
situation in their respective areas. Incidentally, the hanging of Guru came two days
ahead of "martyr's day" observed by Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front on February 11 when
their founder leader Maqbool Bhat was hanged to
death in Tihar jail in 1983 for being guilty of
killing a bank manger in the border district of Kupwara in a bank robbery case. The separatist leaders and the mainstream
politicians in Kashmir were averse to Guru's
hanging. Incidentally, chief minister Omar
Abdullah was in New Delhi on Friday and reports
said that he was himself caught unawares about
the rejection of the mercy plea of Afzal Guru by President Pranab Mukherjee. Afzal Guru, who hailed from Sopore in north
Kashmir was a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist and
was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in
2002 after he was found guilty of facilitating the
2001 Parliament attack. Nine people including
security men and officials of Parliament were killed when Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists
attacked Parliament in 2001 and Afzal Guru was
held responsible for conspiracy and helping the
perpetrators. Several Kashmiris based in New
Delhi were picked up for questioning but later on
released after court observed that they were not involved in the crime. Afzal Guru was initially a member of the JKLF
terrorist outfit. Guru, according to his own
interviews with various newspapers, had
admitted that he rejoined militancy after one
Tariq Ahmad of Anantnag motivated him to join
'jehad' for the liberation of Kashmir by launching attacks on various embassies and Indian
institutions. Tariq, according to Guru's own
version introduced him to one Jaish-e-
Mohammad terrorist in Ghaziabad in Pakistan,
who motivated him to launch an attack on the
Parliament. The Supreme Court had ordered hanging of Guru
in 2004, after he was charged with facilitating
the attack on Parliament in 2001. But Guru's wife
made an appeal to the President for mercy after
his execution was scheduled in 2006. Till then the
mercy petition was pending with the President's office. Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had
promised that he would dispose of the file soon
after he took over the charge of the ministry last
year. The reports from New Delhi said that President
Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy plea on
January 23, 2013 and the hanging took place at 8
am on Saturday, inside the Tihar jail where the
convict was lodged, sources added.
http://www.timesofindia.com/india/A...sed-to-avert-trouble/articleshow/18413123.cms
