Thousands join funeral of slain Kashmiri religious leader
April 8th, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANSSrinagar, April 8 (IANS) Thousands of mourners joined the ‘Nimaz-e-Jinaza’ (funeral prayers) of Kashmiri religious leader Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah, who was killed in a powerful blast outside a mosque in summer capital Srinagar just before the Friday prayers.
Thousands of mourners offered the ‘Nimaz-e-Jinaza’ in city centre Lal Chowk. They were led by senior separatist leaders, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group, Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the pro-azadi Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Professor Abdul Gani Bhat, former chairman of the moderate Hurriyat, Bilal Gani Lone, chief of Peoples’ Conference and executive member of Mirwaiz Hurriyat, and Nayeem Khan, chief of separatist Democratic Front.
The body of the slain religious leader was then taken to his home in Lal Bazar locality of the city where other family members joined the funeral procession to the martyrs’ graveyard where Showkat Ahmad Shah was laid to rest amid shouting of pro-freedom slogans by the mourners.
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