07-13-2008, 08:42 PM
<b>Pakistan, Saudi Arabia bankrolled Amarnath agitation: Azad</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Akhnoor (Jammu and Kashmir), July 13 (IANS) In his first public appearance in this border town, former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday accused Pakistan and Saudi Arabia of bankrolling the parties behind the violent agitation on the Amarnath land row.
Lashing out at all the groups that made an 'issue' of the allotment of the land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) and subsequent cancellation of the same, Azad said: 'Less than one percent of the population of the state was involved in these agitations, which were being carried out with money provided by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.'
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Akhnoor (Jammu and Kashmir), July 13 (IANS) In his first public appearance in this border town, former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday accused Pakistan and Saudi Arabia of bankrolling the parties behind the violent agitation on the Amarnath land row.
Lashing out at all the groups that made an 'issue' of the allotment of the land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) and subsequent cancellation of the same, Azad said: 'Less than one percent of the population of the state was involved in these agitations, which were being carried out with money provided by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.'
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