MUZAFFARABAD, March 18: Five workers of the Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the student wing of the ruling Muslim Conference, sustained bullet wounds in a clash with activists of pro-independence National Students Federation (NSF) near here on Sunday, police said.

The clash erupted after MSF activists pasted a poster of their organisation’s “Kashmir banega Pakistan” rally outside a shop which reportedly belonged to the family of an NSF leader in Zaminabad village, some 30 km south of here, along the Muzaffarabad-Kohala road, a police source said.

Posters of the rally, which began on Sunday from Mirpur and will conclude in Muzaffarabad on March 23, carry pictures of MS leaders, including AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, his father Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan and predecessor Sardar Sikandar Hayat.

DSP City Mohammad Musa Khan told Dawn that five MSF workers identified as Sajid Rashid, Nasir, Sikandar Majid, Maulvi Khamim and Tabassum Nisar had received bullet wounds in their legs and were admitted to the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences in stable condition.