Army chief discusses J&K unrest with NSA
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Sunday met National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval during which the duo discussed the recent tension in Kashmir Valley.
The meeting took place a day after the Chief of Army Staff met Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar.
Earlier on Saturday, General Rawat met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra in Jammu, where he briefed him on the prevailing situation in Kashmir.
In the latest development, a group of terrorists barged into a medical shop owner’s house in Srinagar yesterday and shot him dead.
Bashir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Qasba Yaar Rajpora Pulwama who runs a medical shop in his village, was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Another local was also injured during the firing and was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
In another development highlighting the soaring violence in the Valley, a youth was killed after security forces fired at stone-pelters in Batmaloo’s S.D. Colony in Srinagar on Saturday.
“Police is collecting the details and is looking into the circumstances under which a person identified as Sajad Hussain Sheikh, a resident of Chandoosa Baramulla at present S.D. Colony Srinagar got killed,” the police said in a statement.
Some days ago, a video purportedly showing a Kashmiri youth tied to the front of moving army jeep invited protests from rights groups.