Blast at Hurriyat office in Srinagar

New Delhi: Militants on Wednesday night hurled a grenade inside the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) office in the Rajbagh area in Srinagar.

This is the second attack by militants targetting the moderate faction of separatist outfit Hurriyat Conference in the past three weeks.

Sources said there was no causality or much damage to property and none of the top Hurriyat leaders was present in the office when the blast occurred.

The grenade attack comes in the wake of threats from militant outfits for the statement that Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq made during his recent visit to Pakistan, saying that separatist violence in Jammu and Kashmir had failed to achieve anything.

Mirwaiz and his senior party colleagues Abdul Ghani Bhatta and Bilal Lone, who had accompanied him Pakistan, are expected to return to Srinagar on Thursday.

In the second week of January, militants had hurled a grenade near the Mirwaiz's residence in Nijeen Chowk, though it did not cause any damage.