Sheikh Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid is a firebrand legislator from frontier north Kashmir’s Langate who hogged headlines in September 2011 when he introduced a resolution in the state assembly seeking amnesty for 2011 parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. He launched Awami Ittihaad Party (AIP) in June of 2013 to counter what he calls “puppet regimes” in the disputed territory which recently protested against BJP’s move of rehabilitating West Pakistan refugees.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:58:57 +0000
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