"... It is not a political blame game. Earlier, they used to attack the Army; now, they are attacking civilians... Despite the intelligence and security forces being active, they managed to do something like this. It has shaken everybody to the core. Who are they to attack us?... If they kil
This has been one of the biggest terror attacks after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. Following the terror attack, security forces have launched search operations on Wednesday to track down the terrorists responsible.
A third individual killed in what is being described by families as a staged encounter in Balochistan's Duki district has been identified by relatives as Abdul Nabi Marri, a man reportedly missing for two months, as reported by The Balochistan Post.
The NIA team - led by a Deputy Inspector General-rank officer - visited Baisaran a day after terrorists gunned down a group of tourists in the picturesque meadow, which is located around five kilometres from Pahalgam town in Kashmir's Anantnag district.
"Our ticket was for tomorrow, but we are leaving today. We are scared, I am with family, I just want us to return home soon," the Jharkhand tourist said.
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.
"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 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.
All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Maulana Khalid Rasheed of Farangi Mahali on Monday strongly condemned the killings of tourists in the Pahalgam terrorist attack, which has caused a stir across the country, and demanded punishment for those involved in the killings while
"This is a very sad incident. In the last three months, more than five lakh tourists have visited Kashmir. If we look at all these issues, the situation in Kashmir was very well managed, but this cowardly act by Pakistan is intolerable," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gupta told ANI.
Karnataka Minister Santosh Lad arrived in Srinagar to coordinate on behalf of the Siddaramaiah government. The ministers and officials from other states were also seen on the field.