Maqbool Bhat

Two journalists were called for questioning by Jammu and Kashmir police after reporting on a Kashmir Valley shutdown call issued by banned separatist outfit JKLF to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat

Jammu and Kashmir: The terrorist has been identified as Asif Maqbool Bhat. He was also responsible for shooting at migrant labourer Shafi Aaalm in Sopore, the police said.

Curfew-like restrictions have been imposed in parts of Srinagar city in the wake of a call for strike by separatist groups to commemorate the death anniversary of Maqbool Bhat, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front or JKLF founder who was hanged in Delhi 32 years ago.

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was today detained at the Srinagar Airport soon after his arrival from Delhi and "escorted to his home".

Two days after he was executed in Delhi, Afzal Guru's family received a letter this morning disclosing that he was to be hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament. Fearing a backlash in Kashmir, authorities have imposed a curfew, arrested local politicians and restricted the local press and Internet.

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines...

Two journalists were called for questioning by Jammu and Kashmir police after reporting on a Kashmir Valley shutdown call issued by banned separatist outfit JKLF to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat

Jammu and Kashmir: The terrorist has been identified as Asif Maqbool Bhat. He was also responsible for shooting at migrant labourer Shafi Aaalm in Sopore, the police said.

Curfew-like restrictions have been imposed in parts of Srinagar city in the wake of a call for strike by separatist groups to commemorate the death anniversary of Maqbool Bhat, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front or JKLF founder who was hanged in Delhi 32 years ago.

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was today detained at the Srinagar Airport soon after his arrival from Delhi and "escorted to his home".

Two days after he was executed in Delhi, Afzal Guru's family received a letter this morning disclosing that he was to be hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament. Fearing a backlash in Kashmir, authorities have imposed a curfew, arrested local politicians and restricted the local press and Internet.

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines...