"This is an intelligence failure. The government has to analyse whether its deterrence policy is successful. This incident is more condemnable than the Uri and Pulwama attacks. The terrorists targeted civilians this time. It is a massacre. We demand from the government that accountability
According to sources, top officers have rushed to the affected areas, with local security forces in alert and additional troops are being inducted in the area to carry out the search and destroy operations to nab the terrorists responsible for the attack.
Doda SSP Sandeep Mehta on Wednesday informed that, since the recent terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the security in the region is tight.
In the aftermath of the tragic terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed the lives of innocent tourists on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday met the families of the victims outside the Police Control Room in Srinagar.
"The attack on innocent tourists in Pahalgam by the terrorists is a grave and inhuman incident, which should be condemned by all the sections of the society. Terror activities in J&K have already come to zero. This incident definitely has a foreign hand behind it," Rao told ANI.
The DGP has ordered close monitoring of rail, road, and air traffic in view of any suspicious foreign activity. Security has been tightened in areas bordering Nepal, as well as at bus and railway stations.
JanaSena Party President Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday announced a three-day mourning period following the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Baisaran area that claimed 28 lives, according to an official statement.
PoJK political activist Amjad Ayub Mirza, speaking from Glasgow, condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, blaming Pakistan Army and ISI for orchestrating the violence. He called for decisive action beyond internal security, urging strikes on terror launchpads in PoJK.
According to the Raipur Collector, first the bodies will be transported to the national capital, with the efforts on to ensure that the families of the victims are able to come back together, looking at the security situation in the region.
The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which targeted innocent tourists, has sparked a wave of condemnation from both political leaders and celebrities alike.
"The thing is that there is a lot of injustice in the world, this is the rude face, where the people who do not want to fight, just came for seeing the place, it is a shameless act to attack them, it is a crime. However much this (terror attack) is resisted against is less," he told ANI.
Following Tuesday's terror attack in Pahalgam that had left Kashmir Valley in deep mourning and the nation in collective grief, Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid his tributes to the victims of the attack outside the Police Control Room in Srinagar on Wednesday.