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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Freedom of the press
politician (PDP candidate for Baramulla-
Kupwara Lok Sabha constituency) Nizamu-Din
Bhat. 17
On 25 April 2004, armed opposition
groups’ members reportedly hurled a
grenade at a PDP election rally minutes
after party chief Mehbooba Mufti left the
venue, killing three persons and injuring
seven at Khool-Noorabad in Anantnag
district. Ten persons, including NDTV
cameraman S. Tariq, were reportedly
injured in the blast, of which three of them
later succumbed to their injuries. 18
At around 7.30 pm on 22 November
2004, unidentified persons allegedly
hurled a grenade inside the office of an
Urdu newspaper Tameel-e-Irshad and its
sister news agency KPS, located on the
first floor of a building at Lambert Lane-
Regal Chowk in Srinagar. Two employees
of the newspaper were injured in the
attack. 19
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