"“The unfortunate thing was that the J&K government had nothing to do with Afzal Guru's execution.” “Otherwise, you would have had to do it with the permission of the state government, which I can tell you in no uncertain terms would not have been forthcoming. We wouldn't have done it. I don't believe that any purpose was served by executing him.”"
January 1, 1970
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