‘Hurriyat’s Geelani warns of ‘dire consequences’ if Afzal is hanged’

Afzal Guru has been convicted in the terror attack on the Parliament.

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Srinagar | August 11, 2011 09:34 PM IST

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Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday warned of “dire consequences” if Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged.

It will unleash a “storm”,Geelani said in a statement.

The Hurriyat hawk’s statement comes a day after Union Home Ministry is understood to have recommended that Guru’s mercy petition be rejected and he be hanged.

Guru,a resident of north Kashmir’s volatile Sopore town,had sent a mercy petition to President Pratibha Patil after he was sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack.

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