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India-Pakistan
India will burn if rebel hanged says Kashmiri leader
2006-10-15
NEW DELHI - India will “go up in flames” if it hangs a Muslim militant convicted for his role in an attack on parliament in 2001, a former chief minister of Indian Kashmir was quoted as saying.

Last month a New Delhi court set October 20 as the date for the hanging of Kashmiri Mohammed Afzal, triggering violent protests in Indian Kashmir, IndiaÂ’s only Muslim-majority state.

“You want to hang him? Go ahead and hang him ..."
Okay, don't mind if we do.
"... this nation will go up in flames because the terrorists will do things which will destroy the relationship of the Hindus and Muslims here,” Farooq Abdullah told CNN-IBN TV news. “Kashmir will anyway go up in flames ... there will (also) be turmoil which India will have to face. I am telling you.”
The feared Kashmiri street will erupt!
Abdullah, a senior Kashmiri politician whose pro-India National Conference party has often ruled the state, was speaking in an interview to be telecast on Sunday, excerpts of which were released by the channel on Saturday.

Afzal was sentenced to death for his role in the attack when five gunmen stormed the parliament complex. The gunmen were all shot dead. Kashmiri leaders have said hanging Afzal would fuel a Muslim separatist revolt in Indian Kashmir that has killed more than 45,000 people since 1989. “You will be making him a hero for centuries to come ... you are giving a massive weapon to the separatists in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,” Abdullah told CNN-IBN.
He'll also be dead so he won't be planning any more terrorist missions.
It is not clear if the hanging will be carried out on the set date as the president considers the clemency plea.
Posted by:Steve White

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