MP’s house attacked

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, June 30:  Angry protesters on Wednesday attacked the house of senior National Conference leader and Member Parliament Sharif-ud-Din Shariq in Handwara town of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Eyewitness’s told Greater Kashmir that hundreds of youth took to streets this morning in Handwara town raising pro-freedom slogans and pelted stones on the house of Sharif-ud-Din Shariq near district hospital Handwara.
 “They also damaged several windowpanes of the house and tried to barge inside the house, but the SOG personnel chased away the protesters,” they said
 The protesters were miffed by remarks of the MP on a television channel last night in which he dubbed the protesters as “paid-agents.”
 Earlier in the morning hundreds of protesters burnt the tyres on Handwara-Varmul highway.
 The protesters tried to proceed towards environment hall of town where junior Minister Nasir Sogami was holding a meeting, but were stopped by police near SP office Handwara.
 Pertinently, protesters Tuesday set ablaze Shabnam Store building of a National Conference activist on Khannabal-Pahalgam Road in Islamabad after three teenagers were killed in police firing there.
 Meanwhile, according to reports, house of another NC activist was attacked near HMT on the outskirts of Srinagar Tuesday.

Lastupdate on : Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:30:00 Mecca time
Lastupdate on : Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 GMT
Lastupdate on : Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 IST

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