“When he was told about his execution, he was calm. He expressed his wish to write to his wife. The jail superintendent gave him a pen and paper,” an official told IANS under the condition of anonymity.
“He wrote the letter in Urdu, which was posted to his family in Kashmir the same day,” the official said.
When IANS contacted Afzal Guru's family in Sopore, they said they are yet to receive the letter. “We have not received his letter. Maybe we will get it later, like the one about his hanging, which we got today,” Yaseen Guru, Afzal's cousin, told IANS on phone.
A hangman was called and arrangements were made to hang Afzal Guru near his solitary cell in of Tihar Jail Number 3.
