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Jammu and Kashmir: Two injured, one tourist killed in J&K stone pelting

A 22-year-old tourist from Tamil Nadu was killed and two members of his family, including his mother, were injured when their cab was attacked by a group of stone-pelters at Narbal on the Srinagar-Gulmarg highway on Monday. Nearly half a dozen vehicles were attacked by the stone-pelters.

The stone-pelters were protesting against the killing of five Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in an encounter in Shopian on Sunday. The victim, identified as R Thirumani from Chennai, succumbed to head injuries in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences at Soura on the outskirts of Srinagar. The family had arrived on Sunday and was on its way to Gulmarg when it was attacked.

Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti rushed to the hospital to console the tourists. “Stone-pelters threw stones on our cab and Thirumani was hit in the head that resulted in his death,” a sobbing Rajwali, father of the deceased, told Mehbooba.

The joint resistance leadership (JRL) of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik had called for a three-day shutdown and protests across Kashmir valley soon after the killing of five Hizbul terrorists and five stone-pelters at Badigam in Shopian on Sunday.

“We have registered a case under FIR Number 57/2018 in Magam police station and investigation into the attack has been initiated. Culprits will be nabbed soon,” a senior police officer said.

The attack on the tourists comes five days after tourists were attacked by stone-pelters in South Kashmir. One of the tourists, Ritu Devi from Mumbai, who was severely injured, also sustained head injuries in the attack. In another attack at the same spot in Narbal, a 19-year-old Kashmiri girl, Sabreena from Handwara was injured when the group of rowdies pelted stones on the passing vehicles.

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His remark came at a time when Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s portrait at the Aligarh Muslim University has sparked off a row. The Congress party, however, distanced from his remark, saying that Aiyar should retire from politics and sit at home.

The Congress had suspended Aiyar from its primary membership and slapped a show-cause notice on him for his “neech” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which had stemmed into a massive controversy just ahead of the Gujarat polls.

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Aiyar further said that he referred to Jinnah as the “Quaid-e-Azam” and the hysterical Indian TV anchors were demanding to know how an Indian could go to Pakistan and say this.

“I know many Pakistanis who called M.K. Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi; does that make them unpatriotic Pakistanis?” he added.

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