A day after the Parliament attack convict was hanged inside Tihar Jail in the national capital, more questions are being raised on whether the family of Afzal Guru was deliberately kept in the dark about the government's decision. While the government has claimed to have sent the information about the execution to Guru's family in advance, his family and relatives have maintained that they got to know about the hanging...
07:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Opposition party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that hanging of Afzal Guru has created a trust deficit in the Valley. She added that it was an "unfortunate" decision which the Congress-led government took to combat the Bharatiya Janata Party and not terrorism. ...
06:13 PM, Feb 10, 2013
In this episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha takes on the people who find a reason to protest against almost everything. ...
02:07 PM, Feb 10, 2013
More than 24 hours after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged inside Tihar jail, the prison officials have reportedly said that they are yet to receive the acknowledgment receipt of the speed post, through which the government claimed to have sent information to Afzal's family about his execution. This has a raised questions on the credibility of the government's claims that the family had been informed ahead of the...
01:24 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged, an uneasy calm prevails over Kashmir. Afzal Guru was a resident of Sopore. On Saturday, 30 people, including security personnel, were injured when protests erupted in the district following news of his hanging. There is a curfew in Kashmir and will be in place till February 11, the death anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Maqbool Bhatt....
07:32 AM, Feb 10, 2013
As 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail in the national capital on Saturday morning, curfew was clamped across districts in Kashmir Valley. ...
11:57 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Kamini Jaiswal has hit out saying death row convicts are being used for political gains. ...
03:08 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged to death on Saturday at 8 am inside Tihar jail. ...
02:00 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Authorities on Saturday snapped the mobile internet services in Kashmir Valley following hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru inside Tihar jail in national capital. ...
01:50 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who are in Delhi, were placed under house arrest soon after Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail at 8 am on Saturday. ...
01:41 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday expressed disappointment over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and appealed to the people of Kashmir to exercise restraint. "PDP is disappointed at the hanging of Afzal Guru. We had urged that political sensitivities should be taken into considering while taking a decision on his clemency plea," PDP spokesman Nayeem Akhtar said. ...
01:38 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Saturday announced four-day mourning on the death of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning following his conviction in the Parliament attack case. "We call on people to observe four-day mourning on the hanging of Guru. A complete shutdown will be observed over the mourning period," Shahidul Islam, spokesman of the amalgam, told PTI. ...
01:32 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's family said they were not told in advance about his hanging Saturday morning and want his body. Yaseen Guru, a cousin of Afzal Guru, told IANS on phone: "It is all rubbish that we were told before the execution... We came to know about it through the media." ...
01:07 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Stressing that he wanted a quick end to his ordeal, Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru had in 2008 doubted if the UPA government could ever reach a decision on his case. In what was perhaps his last interview, the death row convict had told IANS that life had become hell and he did not wish to be "part of the living dead". ...
12:47 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Afzal Guru has been buried inside the Tihar jail complex, a prison official told PTI on Saturday. "He (Guru) was buried near jail number three," he added. This was similar to the case of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was buried in Pune's Yerwada jail soon after his execution. ...
11:48 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Reports of sporadic protests have come in from Sopore and Baramulla of Kashmir Valley against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
11:38 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am on Saturday inside Tihar jail. ...
11:16 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir government was kept in the loop about the Centre's decision to hang Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and all steps to maintain law and order in the state have been taken, said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. ...
11:16 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Security has been tightened and curfew imposed in several areas of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag following the hanging of Parliament attacker Afzal Guru in Delhi's Tihar Jail on Saturday morning. Cable TV services have also been shut down in the Kashmir Valley. ...
10:39 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind. "He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed," a top Tihar Jail official told PTI. ...
10:31 AM, Feb 09, 2013
