In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference and other liberation parties have strongly condemned the attack on the 66-year old senior APHC leader, Fazl Haq Qureshi. An attempt was made on the life of Fazl Haq Qureshi, on Friday evening, in occupied Srinagar when he was returning after Maghrib prayers in a local mosque near his residence. He was shifted to Surgical Intensive Care Unit of Soura Hospital.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, while terming the incident an attack on the ongoing freedom movement and the Hurriyet Conference said, "It is really sad that people are attacked while going for prayers. Fazl Haq's contribution to the freedom movement is immense and attack on him is the attack on the entire movement, KMS reported him as saying. Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani termed the attack as inhuman, irrespective of who carried it out. "It is an unfortunate incident which needs to be condemned strongly," he maintained.
Other Hurriyet leaders Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Azam Inqalabi, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Yasmeen Raja, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Javed Ahmad Mir, Mehmood Ahmad Shaghar, Mohammad Farooq Rehmani, Shaikh Mohammad Yaqoob, Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl, Jamaat-e-Islami and other leader and parties in their statements, while terming the attack on the Hurriyet leader as brutal and dastardly act, said that it was aimed at creating differences within the pro-freedom camp.