Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid tribute to the soldiers who laid down their lives in a terror attack on their convoy in Pulwama in the year 2019.
On the fourth anniversary of the Pulwama terror attack, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar on Tuesday said of the 19 militants involved in the attack in 2019, eight have been killed, seven arrested and four, including three Pakistanis, are still alive.
Hawaldar Naseer Ahmad was among 40 jawans who lost their lives in the Pulwama attack on February 14 in 2019 when militants in Kashmir attacked a CRPF convoy.
MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan hits back at Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for raising questions over the surgical strike in Pakistan's Balakot after the Pulwama attack in 2019.
The Indian Army is not bound to give proof about the surgical strikes it conducted in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, former IAF officer Wg Cdr Praful Bakshi (retd) said on Monday, adding that the government knows that sharing the details of the attack is "against the policy of the army".
Sharply reacting to Digvijaya Singh's remark on India's Surgical strike against Pakistan, BJP alleged that the Congress leader has been "blinded" by the hatred against PM Modi, while adding that such statements are made at the behest of the top leadership of Congress.
Lashing out at Mustafa Kamal, brother of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, Defence experts on Monday termed Kamal's statement that the Uri and Pulwama attacks were orchestrated by the Central government as highly 'mischievous', one made at the 'beck and call' of Pa
"Almost clear that it was planned by Govt of India. We didn't see their photos or bodies. Until it's clear as to who's the killer, all fingers point toward agencies of the Government of India," said Mustafa Kamal.
President Arif Alvi on Thursday signed the summary and approved the appointment of Lieutenant General Asim Munir as the next Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Lt Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee (CJCSC).
Munir was among those in Pakistan who oversaw the 2019 Pulwama terror attack, according to Tilak Devasher, a member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) and who retired as Special Secretary, the Cabinet Secretariat.
An engineering student was granted a five-year jail term by a Bengaluru court for celebrating the 2019 Pulwama attack in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) jawans were killed.