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Hurriyat warns of dire consequences if Guru hanged
News Desk, Srinagar
Thursday, 11 August, 2011 09:09:56 PM
Thursday, 11 August, 2011 09:09:56 PM
Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday warned of "dire consequences" if Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged.
It will unleash a "storm", Geelani said in a statement.
The Hurriyat hawk's statement comes a day after Union Home Ministry is understood to have recommended that Guru's mercy petition be rejected and he be hanged.
Guru, a resident of north Kashmir's volatile Sopore town, had sent a mercy petition to President Pratibha Patil after he was sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack.
