Srinagar, Feb 06: Grieving over the death of two policemen, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today termed as “act of cowardice” the Lashkar-e-Taiba attack on a police party at a hospital in Srinagar, even opposition said it was a result of a “big security lapse”.
In her message, the Chief minister described the incident as “an act of cowardice which ought to be condemned by one and all”.
Pained to hear that two more brave policemen lost their lives in an attack in Srinagar today. My heart goes out to their families and loved ones.
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 6, 2018
Mehbooba conveyed her sympathies to the bereaved families of the two policemen.
“Pained to hear that two more brave policemen lost their lives in an attack in Srinagar today. My heart goes out to their families and loved ones,” Mehbooba said on Twitter.
Condemning the incident, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and working president Omar Abdullah expressed their profound grief and sorrow over the killing of two policemen.
The NC said the attack showed there was a “big security lapse”, and such incidents shatter the faith of people.
“This is the biggest security lapse as the incident happened at a heavily guarded complex,” NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana said.
Such an incident “shatters the faith of people and show the situation in Kashmir is not good”, he said.
The Congress demanded a “probe into the circumstances leading to this incident”.
JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma hoped that government forces would leave no stone unturned to track down the assailants.
Denouncing the J&K government, JKPCC president Ghulam Ahmed Mir alleged the PDP-BJP coalition had “vitiated the atmosphere of peace and harmony, and worsened the overall situation in Jammu and Kashmir”.
The Centre and J&K government have no policy or roadmap to deal with the Kashmir problem or Pakistan, he said in Doda.
Earlier in the day, opposition members in the Legislative Assembly demanded a detailed statement from the government on the incident.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister A R Veeri briefed the House on the basis of preliminary information and said a detailed statement would be made once all details are available.
