Sunday, May 25, 2008

Hazratbal Mosque Crisis: How and Why it Happened?

Arun ShourieMay I begin with a few passages from my book 'A Secular Agenda'? It was sent to the press in late September and comes out later this week. A chapter, "No time to relent", which concludes the section on Kashmir notes: "On April 9, intelligence agencies received information that a number of militants had gathered at Hazratbal mosque. The army and the BSF surrounded the place.