Hurriyat Leader Still Critical, Srinagar Bandh
Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haque Qureshi, who was shot outside his house here by unidentified gunmen on Friday, is still critical. Srinagar has shut down following this attack.
Qureshi underwent a four-hour long operation in the Sher-e-Kashmir Medical Institute Soura and is now on a ventilator for respiratory support. He is in the ICU under tight security and no one is allowed to meet him, except close relatives. Doctor says that a bullet had pierced through his head.
Qureshi, a senior leader of the moderate Hurriyat group headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, is said to be one of the most vocal supporters of the dialogue process to solve the Kashmir issue. He was shot and left critically injured outside his house at Soura, when he was leaving for prayers at a mosque. Four men shot him from close range. Al-Nasreen, a little-known guerrilla group, had called some local media offices and owned responsibility for the attack. The attack is seen to be a part of the plot to pull stops at the “quiet dialogue” reportedly going on between the union government and the separatist leaders of Kashmir.
In New Delhi, home minister P Chidambaram, the initiator of the “quiet talks, quiet diplomacy” with Kashmiri separatist leaders, sent a tough message to “the elements who want to derail the peace process”.
“The correct response at this hour is not to be cowed down by these violent acts or allow fear to interrupt the process of quiet talks and quiet diplomacy,” Chidambaram said in a statement.
“I assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir that we remain committed to finding a solution through quiet talks with every shade of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir,” the home minister replied
He mentioned that the attack on Qureshi “was a cowardly attempt by those who do not wish that the problems of Jammu and Kashmir should be resolved through talks and in a peaceful manner”.
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Posted by Starwin on 5th December, 2009
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