Mehbooba also said unemployment and alienation in Jammu and Kashmir have reached alarming levels, citing recent incidents, and alleged that the Omar Abdullah-led government has remained silent on these burning issues.
The body of one of the two soldiers, who had gone missing after a snowstorm on Monday in the dense Gadol forests of Kokernag, where they were engaged in a search operation, was recovered yesterday.
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was among two soldiers of the Indian Army martyred in an encounter with terrorists on Monday in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
A day after the ceasefire was announced between India and Pakistan, the Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) carried out multiple searches across South Kashmir. The raids were conducted at 20 locations as part of the surveillance on the terror associates and overground workers (OGW) working in Kashmir.
The Indian army and local security forces have re-dominated the vulnerable axes in South Kashmir as part of the robust yet lawful actions aimed at isolating terrorist posts after the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking to reporters in South Kashmir’s Kulgam, Dr Abdullah said,“I have no expectations from the visit of the Defence Minister. Can he bring back the three people who were killed in Poonch” and asked “Does he have that power?”
Identity of the killed terrorists was being ascertained. Search operation is underway in the area and further details are awaited.
The Kashmir Police have initiated an investigation into the explosion but ruled out the terrorist angle to the incident.
On his visit to Anantnag, the DGP chaired a high-level meeting of police, Army and CRPF officers to review the security scenario in the wake of targeted terror strikes at migrant labourers and ongoing Amaranth pilgrimage.
As per the agency, in Anantnag, five locations have been raided, in Kulgam there is one while in Shopian, there are four locations that were raided.
