SRINAGAR: Terrorists of a little-known outfit shot at and critically injured the 22-year-old scion of Srinagar s landmark Krishna Vaishno Dhaba on Wednesday, timing the attack with a 24-member European Union delegation s two-day visit to the Valley. In a statement later, the Muslim Janbaz Force, which the South Asia Terrorism Portal lists as a Pakistani outfit, said the attack was in retaliation to outsiders being allowed to settle in J&K under the new domicile rules.
Victim Aakash Mehra was at the popular Dalgate eatery owned by his father Ramesh Kumar Mehra, whose roots are in Jammu s Janipora, when the terrorists singled him out and shot him in the chest around 7.15pm, J&K Police said. Medical superintendent Dr Nazir Choudhary of SMHS Hospital told TOI that Aakash underwent surgery and his condition remains critical.
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Envoys from 24 countries, including the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), began a two-day trip to J&K to assess the ground situation (Source: PTI)
In the third such visit by foreign envoys to Jammu and Kashmir in the last 18 months, diplomats from 24 countries, including the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), began a two-day trip to the Union Territory to assess the ground situation.
The visit by the envoys comes days after 4G mobile Internet was restored in the UT following the revocation of special status of J&K under Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
Besides interacting with the locals, the envoys, who were from France, the European Union, Brazil, Italy, Finland, Cuba, Chile, Portugal and other countries, also had discussions with recently elected members of the District Development Councils. The delegation also had representatives from OIC member states Malaysia, Bangladesh, Senegal and Tajikistan.
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