Local religious organisations condemn India terrorist attack

INNOCENT LIVES

- NADIA KHAN

SOUTH African religious organisations have condemned the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 26 people and left several others injured in the tourist town of Pahalgam in India, last Tuesday.

According to IANS, the attackers, believed to be members of The Resistance Front, an offshoot of the banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, opened fire on tourists at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam, which is situated in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Security forces said at least five to six terrorists, wearing camouflage outfits and kurta pyjamas, emerged from the dense pine forest surrounding the Baisaran meadow and opened fire with AK-47 rifles.

Intelligence sources said the group included Pakistani terrorists who infiltrated the valley just days before the attack,

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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad SA said: “We express our outrage at the attacks on innocent victims who have travelled to Pahalgam. This is yet another dark day in humanity after 9/11, 26/11, 7/7 and 10/7, where the world echoed ‘Never again!

"Yet, the perpetrators of such violence continue to commit the most heinous crimes against humanity.