Wahid Bhat
SRINAGAR : Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has justified her demand of getting the mortal remains of Afzal Guru back to Kashmir.
During the press conference in Srinagar Mehbooba Mufti said “We made an appeal to President of India that Afzal Guru should be forgiven”.
She added that they didn’t want Afzal Guru to be hanged. She was addressing a press conference at her home in Srinagar.
This statement comes exactly six years after the 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on February 9, 2013. “This is a demand that has been made by PDP since Afzal Guru was hanged.
Mehbooba Mufti said that her father Mufti saheb had also appealed to the then President that the man should be forgiven. We also requested that his body be given to his family, our stand on it has not changed.” His body was buried within the precincts of Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
The December 13, 2001 attack was conducted by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM) gunmen, who sneaked into Parliament in a car withfake stickers. They drove into the then Vice President Krishna Kant’s car parked in the premises and began firing. (PTK)
