PAHALGAM attack: Jammu and Kashmir today observe the complete shutdown of 23 April to express the collective grief and protest against the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam. A terrorist attack, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists, was carried out on Tuesday afternoon in the Baisaran valley in Pahalgam.
The road in Srinagar carried a desert look on Wednesday morning, the day after the attack. This is the first complete shutdown in Jamm and Kashmir after the abolition of Article 370 in 2019. Before 2019, shut -off calls usually came from separatist outfits.
The shutdown, called Kashmir Bandh and Jammu Bandh, are jointly called chambers, trade bodies, transporters, students and civil companies. The National Conference of Political Parties, the Democratic Party Peoples and the Apni Party also expanded their support to the challenge.
The ruling national conference appealed to people to make the bank “complete success” and join the conviction of the terrorist attack of Pahalgam.
In a post on the social media, the party wrote: “The JKNC is attached to the collective challenge to Bandh in a strong conviction of the terrorist attack by Pahalgam.
PDP chief Mehboob Muftti expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and supported the weaning and called him an “attack on all of us”.
“The Association of the Chamber and the Jammu Bar Association called for a complete shutdown tomorrow to protest against a terrible militant attack on tourists. I pull all the cashmere to unite in solidarity to support this bandh as a sign of innocent lives lost in a brutal attack in Pahalgam. The fact that it is in respect, and that it is in respect, and that it is in respect, and what is in the whole of us.
Kashmir Schools were closed
The Association of Jammuchmir students (Jksa) described the attack as “attack on the soul of Jammu and Kashmir” and expanded its support to Bandh. Schools are also closed today in Kashmir. Universities are working, but there is no traffic on the roads, the locals said.
Tariq Rashid Ghani, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kashmir (CCIK), said Bandh would be a “collective act of sadness and resistance”.
The chairman of the conference Hurriyat Hurriyat Mirwaiz Umar Farooq urged people from Jammu and Kashmir to support the weaning and peacefully protested against the “abominable crime”.
The incident, which focused on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district, has caused an extended outrage across the country.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam Jammu and Kashmir and said that those who are placed behind this act will be brought to court. Modi shortened his Saudi visit and landed in Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.
The Minister of the Interior of the Union AMIT Shah chaired a high -level security meeting with all agencies after the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Shah is in Kashmir today and can also visit Pahalgam.
This is not just an attack on a few selected-it’s an attack on all of us.
The Indian Army and Police Jammu and Kashmir have launched a search operation in the general area of Baisran, Pahalgam, Anantnag to charge the perpetrators of the attack.
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