Anti - India protests in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad following the Afzal Guru hanging.
Embarrassed and angered by Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik’s decision to share the stage with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Islamabad, the government is weighing the option of revoking his passport citing national security.
It also seems certain that the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader will be questioned as soon as he returns to explain his hobnobbing with India’s most wanted terror fugitive, almost giving Saeed legitimacy as a champion of the Kashmiri cause. Participating in funeral prayers for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru held in absentia by pro-Kashmir groups in Islamabad on Sunday, Malik called his hanging a “blot on Indian democracy”. Malik is in Pakistan to visit his wife, a Pakistani national.
Even as the pro-azadi JKLF leader urged leaders from PoK to organize public protests against Guru’s hanging, Saeed, who was to lead the funeral prayers at 2 pm, reached the venue ahead of schedule and left after urging the Pakistani government not to maintain silence on the Kashmir issue.
The government has been criticized for allowing Hurriyat leaders to visit Pakistan in the light of their meetings with Saeed and Salahuddin. .
Although there could be legal limitations to filing a case against him for an act committed on foreign soil, there is scope of some other charges being pressed against him.
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