*SRINAGAR: President Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party MehboobaMufti’s convoy was attacked in Anantnag district of Indian Occupied Kashmir(IoK) on Monday while she was returning from a shrine there.*
According to the Indian media reports, Mehbooba Mufti had gone to a shrineat Khirram in Anantnag district to pay her obeisance and was returning toBijbehara when the incident took place.
The driver of PDP president was hurt as the attackers pelted stones,whereas Mehbooba Mufi escaped unhurt.
Mehbooba Mufti is contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha election from theAnantnag seat, which she had won in 2014.
Mufti has been criticising the BJP government and Prime Minister NarendraModi’s act in the Kashmir following the Pulwama attack.
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Last month, Mehbooba Mufti had said that innocent men were hauled up fromtheir homes in the Occupied Kashmir for interrogation and returned homeonly in coffins.
“Government’s repressive approach leaves young educated men vulnerable whoare forced to take up arms. Stop using Kashmir to exhibit your sickchauvinistic nationalism. We have suffered enough,” Mehbooba Mufti wrote inresponse to martyrdom of a school teacher, Rizwan Asad, in police custodyin Awantipora town, Pulwama.