Omar backs all-girls Kashmiri rock band

February 02, 2013 17:12

Coming out in support of Kashmir's only all-girls rock band which faced online threats, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today promised a police probe and hoped that the talented teenagers would not let themselves be silenced by a "handful of morons".

The girls, vocalist-guitarist Noma Nazir (16), drummer Farah Deeba and Guitarist Aneeka Khalid (both 15), who defied convention to form the rock band "Pragaash" (darkness to light) which came to limelight in December last year, are now faced with a challenge of online threats and abuses.

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