National Conference leader, Abdul Rashid Dar, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in his house at Telbal near Srinagar on Monday night, official sources said on Tuesday. They said that gunmen intruded into the house of Dar, block president of Hazratbal, around 10 pm and shot him dead. Dar, who was recently appointed as block president, refused to shift to the fortified hotel sunshine, where most of the political activists are residing, the sources said. Bureau Report