Srinagar, Sept. 20 -- People's Conference chairman and MLA Sajad Lone today launched a scathing attack on People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti over her letter to union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking a humanitarian approach in the case of jailed separatist leader Yasin Malik, saying both her party and the National Conference (NC) were guilty of double standards.
Lone, who said he has known Malik since his college days, recalled that successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir, including those led by the NC and PDP, had framed cases against the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief for political expediency.
"Politics apart, Yasin Malik and I have been friends. I have decided that when these two families (NC and PDP)...