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While din was on, local Muslims sheltered and fed stranded Yatris [1]

Muzamil Jaleel The smell of tear gas on the streets of Srinagar, littered with glass shards, stones and smouldering tyres, are testimony to the pitched battles over the controversial transfer of forest land to the Amarnath shrine board. But as passions ran high, stoked mostly by politicians, the local Muslim population worked quietly, organising free langars for the hundreds of pilgrims stranded because of the shutdown

Publication Date: 
30/06/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Land [3], Forest Resources [4], Jammu & Kashmir [5], Srinagar (D) [6]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jammu-kashmir
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/srinagar-d