India Hunts suspects days to Kaschmirmorde

The authorities administered in Kashmir in India have demolished the houses of at least 10 alleged militants and arrested more people due to surveys, since the investigation continued by 26 people in the past week.

The Indian security forces have used explosives since the attack on tourists last Tuesday to destroy the real estate. According to reports, at least one was associated with a suspect that was named in the shootings.

India accuses Pakistan of supporting militants behind the murders, but has not mentioned a group for the guilt. Islamabad rejects the allegations.

It was the most fatal attack on civilians in the controversial area for two decades. Both India and Pakistan claim the region and have waged two wars about it.

Troops on both sides have traded intermittent small weapons fire across the border in the past few days.

Speculation continues whether India and, after deadly militant attacks in 2019 and 2016, military strikes will react against Pakistan.

The authorities said last week that they had administered extensive searches in Kashmir by Indians and arrested more than 1,500 people for the survey since the attack near the tourist city of Pahalgam. Since then, more people have been detained, although the numbers are unclear.

Officials have not spoken publicly about the demolition, but the houses that aimed at the target were reportedly said to be alleged militants who are active in the region, or those who drove to Pakistan.

The demolition in different locations over the Kashmir Valley of the Muslim majority began last Thursday, the youngest overnight on Saturday to Sunday.

The leading leaders of the region supported measures against alleged militants, but questioned the demolition of the houses of the alleged militant families.

Without mentioning the demolition, Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Omar Abdullah said that the culprits would have to be punished without mercy, “but do not allow you to make innocent people to become collateral damage”.

Former Prime Minister Mehbooba Mufti also criticized the demolition and warned the government to distinguish between “terrorists and civilians”.

Last November, India’s top court banned so -called “Bulldozer Justice”, a practice that has increased in India in recent years.

Since Pahangam’s attack, a number of Kaschmiri students who have been enrolled in Colleges in various parts of India have also reported that they have been attacked or threatened by locals and asked to go.

Kashmir, which India and Pakistan claim in full, but only partially managed, has been a lightning point between the two nuclear armed countries since its division in 1947.

Kashmir, which has been administered in India, has experienced an armed uprising against Indian rule since 1989, with militants aimed at security forces and civilians.

India has not appointed a group that suspects that it did the attack in Pahalgam, and it remains unclear who it did. A little -known group called resistance front, which originally claimed that she had carried out the shootings, gave a statement in which the participation was rejected. According to reports, the front is connected to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant-based militant-based group.

The Indian police have named three out of four alleged attackers. They said two were Pakistani nationals and one of a local from Kashmir from India. There is no information about the fourth man.

Many survivors said that the armed men aimed specifically on Hindu men.

The attack triggered a widespread anger in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly says that the country will chase the suspects “to the ends of the earth” and that those who have planned and held it will be punished beyond their imagination “.

The tensions between India and Pakistan rose within a few hours after the murders, which led to tit-for-tat measures.

India immediately used the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, a water-giving agreement mediated by the World Bank between the two countries, which prompted protests from Pakistan, which states that the interruption or distraction of the water “would be seen as an act of war”.

Pakistan continued to reciprocate through the suspension of the 1972 Simla Agreement, in which both countries had promised to solve their disputes with peaceful means through bilateral negotiations.

The neighbors have also excluded many of the other’s diplomats and revoked the visa of the civilian population – already difficult to procure – left many stranded civilian population on both sides of the border. At least 500 Pakistani nationals, including diplomats and civil servants, have left India since the attack through the land border of Attari-Wagah.

When the tensions are spiral, India fade four nights in a row allegedly from Pakistan along the control line, the de facto limit between the two countries. Pakistan has not yet confirmed it.

On Sunday, modes repeated his promise to keep families of the people killed in the attack and said that it was the normality to which the region returned after years of violence.

“The country’s enemies, Jammu and Kashmir, didn’t like that,” he said in his monthly radio address.

At the weekend, a spokesman for the US State Department Reuters said that Washington was in contact with the governments of India and Pakistan and wanted them to work towards a “responsible resolution”, while British Foreign Minister David Lammy spoke to his colleagues in India and deputy prime minister in Pakistan.

With additional reporting by Aamir Peerzada and Shafat FarooQ in Srinagar

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