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| 7 Killed in Kashmir Pilgrimage Explosion |
| 2003-07-21 |
| Two grenade blasts by suspected Islamic guerrillas on route to one of the most revered Hindu shrines in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed seven pilgrims and wounded 25 others Monday, police said. The explosions occurred at a community kitchen on the route where thousands of people were making the steep climb to the mountaintop shrine of Vaishno Devi, near Katra town, police said. ``This is the work of militants,’’ Inspector-General P.L. Gupta, the head of police force in the Jammu region, told The Associated Press. It’s deep thinking like that that got him the top job. Swami Chinmayananda, India’s junior interior minister, blamed Pakistan for the blasts. ``Pakistan is behind this. We do not know yet if it is the ISI (Pakistani intelligence agency) or the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (outlawed militant group), but some forces of this kind are behind it,’’ he told the private NDTV India television channel. ``It has become a tradition that whenever relations are improving between India and Pakistan, things like this take place,’’ Chinmayananda told the private Aaj Tak channel. ``This has been done to wreck religious harmony between Hindus and Muslims.’’ More deep thinking. |
| Posted by:Steve |