Jammu area has been placed on excessive alert, and protests have damaged out in a number of places on Tuesday after the militant assault on vacationers in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam earlier within the day.
The world the place the assault befell is adjoining to Kishtwar district’s Chatroo space, the place safety forces and the police had on April 10-11 killed three militants, believed to be foreigners. A big amount of arms, together with M-4 and AK sequence rifles, ammunition and explosives had been seized from them.
Expressing concern over the killing of vacationers in Kashmir, the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the primary organisation of merchants and industrialists, has given a name for Jammu bandh on Wednesday.
Whereas folks in Doda city held an illustration and burnt effigies late within the night, the Kishtwar unit of Sanatan Dharam Sabha gave a name for bandh on Wednesday in protest in opposition to the assault.
In Jammu metropolis’s Gujjar Nagar space, folks from the Muslim neighborhood got here out in giant numbers, elevating slogans in opposition to Pakistan. They described the assault on vacationers as an try to wreck the picture of the Kashmiri folks’s hospitable nature.
Bhaderwah’s Anjuman-e-Islamia president Riaz Ahmed Najar condemned the assault, describing it as a “homicide of humanity”. He demanded stern motion in opposition to these concerned within the assault.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha additionally condemned the assault, saying: “Anti-terror ops launched to neutralise terrorists. Whole nation is indignant & blood of our forces is boiling. I need to guarantee the nation that perpetrators of Pahalgam assault should pay a really very heavy worth for his or her heinous act. My heartfelt condolences to bereaved households.”
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Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed shock and anguish over the assault, describing it as an “abomination”.
“This assault on our guests is an abomination. The perpetrators of this assault are animals — inhuman and worthy of contempt. No phrases of condemnation are sufficient,” he stated.
Sunil Sharma, senior BJP chief and Chief of Opposition within the J&Okay Legislative Meeting, accused Pakistan of attempting to create unrest in India. “It has been concentrating on the Hindu neighborhood within the Jammu area to create division within the area,” he stated, including that the hurt inflicted is irreversible and expressing confidence that safety forces would neutralise each perpetrator.
J&Okay Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra additionally condemned the assault and accused the BJP of deceptive the nation on the state of affairs in Kashmir.
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