Hurriyat leader Qureshi stable but critical
December 5th, 2009 - 11:48 am ICT by IANSSrinagar, Dec 5 (IANS) Senior separatist Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haque Qureshi, who was shot outside his house here by unidentified gunmen Friday, is stable but not out of danger, a relative of his said Saturday.
“His operation was conducted last night which continued till 11.30 p.m. and the doctors said he is stable but critical,” Tariq Andrabi, a close relative, told IANS.
Qureshi is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Sher-e-Kashmir Medical Institute Soura (SKIMS) under tight security and no one is allowed to meet him except close relatives, Andrabi said.
Doctors had Friday said a bullet has pierced his head.
Qureshi, a senior leader of the moderate Hurriyat group headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, is said to be one of the most vocal supporters of the dialogue process to solve the Kashmir issue.
He was shot and critically wounded outside his Soura house Friday evening when he was leaving for prayers at a mosque. Four men shot him from close range.
The attack on him is seen as an attempt to derail the “quiet dialogue” reportedly going on between the union government and the Kashmiri separatist leaders.
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