Fourty-three year old Afzal was hanged and buried in Tihar

jail in Delhi on February 9. Asked about Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's statement that government can consider allowing the family to offer 'fatiha' (prayer) on Afzal's grave, Yasin said it was of no use. "Where will we offer faitha? We want to bury him here (in Sopore)," he said. He termed as "cruel joke" the letter received yesterday from Tihar Jail authorities informing the family about Afzal's hanging. "The arrival of the letter yesterday was like rubbing salt into open wounds of the family...The wounds which may never heal," Yasin said. He alleged that the leaders of the country were playing politics over the death of Afzal. "Afzal was hanged -- rightly or wrongly, we don't want to go into that -- but politicians should stop playing politics," he said.