Hurriyat chairman has bandh calendar for every school except his grandchild's

October 28, 2016 10:27

Amid a shutdown spearheaded by the Hurriyat across Kashmir, following the killing of militant Burhan Wani in July, 573 students of Delhi Public School in Srinagar appeared for their internal exams this month at an indoor stadium inside a high-security zone in the city with assistance from the J&K government.

Among those who attended the exams for DPS students of classes 9 and 10 in the Civil Lines area from October 1-5 was the granddaughter of separatist leader and Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The daughter of Geelani's eldest son Dr Nayeem Zafar Geelani, she is a class 10 student in the school. Read the report here.

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