(23 Apr 2025)
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New Delhi, India – 23 April 2025
1. Various of protesters shouting slogans UPSOUND (Hindi) "Shoot the terrorists! Shoot the traitors!"
2. Protesters stepping on Pakistan flag UPSOUND (Hindi) "Down with Pakistan!"
3. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Shekhar Chahal, protester:
"Enough is enough now. We will have to respond to the friends of terrorists and traitors within the country.”
4.Protesters singing Hindu prayers
STORYLINE:
Protesters gathered in New Delhi on Wednesday in the wake of an attack in Kashmir, which killed at least 26 people, most of them tourists.
Police called the incident a “terror attack” and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule.
While senior ministers and Indian officials have not yet provided details of Tuesday’s attack, a large section of Indian media and political commentators immediately blamed Islamabad for it, without citing evidence.
Pakistan has extended condolences to the victims’ families.
Officials said 24 of the people killed were Indian tourists, one was from Nepal and one was a local tourist guide. At least 17 others were injured in the incident which was one of the deadliest attacks in the restive Himalayan region.
“Kashmir Resistance,” a previously unknown militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack on social media. The group said authorities had settled over 85,000 “outsiders” in the region and claimed that those targeted on Tuesday were not “ordinary tourists” but “were linked to and affiliated with Indian security agencies.”
The group’s messages could not be independently verified.
Earlier this month, the local government told its legislature that 83,742 Indians were granted domicile rights in Kashmir in the last two years.
Security has been beefed up across Indian-controlled Kashmir as Indian forces launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of the attack.
Tens of thousands of armed police and soldiers fanned out across the region and erected additional checkpoints, whilst many shops and businesses in Kashmir closed to protest the killings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cut short a visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to New Delhi early Wednesday, was set to hold a special security cabinet meeting later Wednesday.
AP video shot by Rishi Lekhi
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