Two men are accused of carrying out the disputed region’s most deadly attack on civilians in nearly two decades, and two soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir have destroyed their homes.
The Resistance Front (TRF), a branch of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), are reportedly the attackers’ members, according to police. Pakistan rejects the claim.
Indian security forces are also conducting a massive manhunt for the suspects in Tuesday’s massacre of 26 men in Pahalgam.
Authorities have released wanted poster images of two Pakistanis identified as Ali Bhai and Hashim Musa as well as three suspected Kashmiri rebels Adil Hussain Thokar. Additionally, they are looking for another suspected rebel, Ashif Sheikh.
A police officer and their relatives reported that the two suspected rebels’ families had been taken into custody for questioning as well.
Sheikh’s sister Yasmeena reported late on Thursday night when soldiers cordoned off the street in the southern Tral neighborhood of Kashmir.
Yasmeena, who gave only one name, claimed that “one soldier climbed over the mud compound wall of our home.”
“The house was destroyed by a large, terrifying explosion after some time.” She claimed that no one was present at the time because everything inside had been destroyed.
Early on Friday, according to a police officer, soldiers also destroyed Thokar’s family home in the nearby Bijbehara region in the same way.
The officer, who was not authorized to speak to the media, told AFP news agency that “Both [suspected rebels] have been active for three to four years and are members of TRF, which is an offshoot of LeT.
The officer continued, “They are wanted militants [rebels] who have attacked security forces before and also.”
Source: Aljazeera
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