STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Authorities here have demolished the houses of three alleged active terrorists in Bandipora, Pulwama and Shopian districts of the Kashmir Valley as security forces continued their crackdown on the terror ecosystem following the Pahalgam terror attack.
With this, nine houses of suspected terrorists and overground workers of terror outfits have been razed so far since the April 22 attack in the lush meadows of Baisaran that killed 26 people and left the nation grief-stricken and fuming.
As part of the anti-terror crackdown, that picked up more steam after the Pahalgam tragedy, security forces have raided more than 500 locations in the Valley in just five days and grilled hundreds of suspects.
Political parties have urged the Centre to ensure that innocent people are not targeted while it goes after terrorists.
Carrying on with the targeted demolition drive, authorities pulled down the house of Adnan Shafi at Wandina in Shopian district on Saturday night, officials said and claimed that Shafi had joined terrorist ranks last year.
The house of another suspected active terrorist Amir Nazir was pulled down in Pulwama district, they said.
In Bandipora district, the house of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Jameel Ahmad Shergojri, was razed. Officials said Shergojri has been an active terrorist since 2016.
Following the Pahalgam terror attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to hunt down the killers “to the ends of the earth” as his government linked the dastardly attack to Pakistan.
Since then New Delhi has announced a raft of retaliatory steps, including the cancellation of visas and suspension of the 1960s Indus Water Treaty, and Islamabad hitting back with a string of tit-for-tat measures, that included putting the 1972 Shimla Agreement in abeyance.
Pakistan has warned that if India actually goes through with diverting or blocking the Indus water flow, Islamabad would see it as an “act of war”.