Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: The killing of an SPO and his brother in a militant attack at Chadubug Budgam was strongly condemned by several political parties of Jammu and Kashmir.
Unreservedly condemning the brutal killings of siblings SPO Ishfaq Ahmad and his brother, National Conference (NC) president Dr Farooq Abdullah and vice-president Omar Abdullah said that such killings question the Government’s claims on peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir. They said the killings of Ishfaq and his brother is yet another addition to the scores of others who lost their precious lives this year.
The duo expressed sympathies and condolences with the bereaved and prayed for peace to the departed in the highest stations of Jannat. Among others, party general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani and chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq also condemned the incident unequivocally and prayed for peace to the departed souls.
Condemning killing of SPO Ishfaq Ahmad and his younger brother, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir termed the incident as gruesome and mindless. My deepest condolences to bereaved family, Mir said adding that bloodshed and killing of innocent people must end.
Meanwhile, a JKPCC spokesperson said the rank and file of the Party shares the grief with the family of SPO Ishfaq Ahmad and pray for their courage to bear the loss of their siblings. He urged the Government to take serious cognizance of the killing in Budgam and elsewhere in Kashmir and take more effective measures to end the bloodshed.
CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami termed the incident as heinous, barbaric and demanded that perpetrators should be identified and brought to book. “It has sent shock waves into the whole region and everyone is pained and grieved,” Tarigami said and expressed condolences with the bereaved family.
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