Srinagar, Sept. 5 -- ANC Senior Vice President Muzaffar Shah has taken a strong exception to what he described as a reckless tampering with faith and the needless fomenting of unrest in Kashmir over the breaking of a sculpted Ashoka Emblem on the engraved stone at the revered Hazratbal Shrine.

In an statement issued, Shah called for the immediate dissolution of the J&K Waqf Board, warning that such a grievous lapse could ignite law and order challenges in the Valley.

"Those well-versed in Islamic tradition understand that no image has a place in a Muslim shrine or mosque. Hazratbal is the most sacred shrine in J&K and such deliberate or negligent acts that provoke and wound the sentiments of lakhs of devotees represent a total failure o...