Gilani denounces sedition case against AMU Kashmiri students.

ISLAMABAD -- The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has denounced the Indian authorities for slapping a sedition case against two Kashmiri students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar, condemning the sedition charge, said offering funeral prayers in absentia for a person who was a brilliant student of the institution is no way a crime. The students had offered in absentia the funeral of the ex-university student Dr Mannan Wani, KMS reported.

Meanwhile, Syed Ali Gilani, quoting a delegation that called on him a few days ago, said, 'The five youth killed on the pretext of being foreigners were the local youth, (three of them identified as) Abdul Rashid Lone, Farooq Ahmad Bajran and...