By way of PTI
SRINAGAR: Militants shot useless a sarpanch in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officers mentioned.
That is the 3rd killing of a neighborhood elected consultant by means of militants in Jammu and Kashmir this month.
One of the crucial officers mentioned, “At about 8:50 pm, terrorists fired upon Shabir Ahmad Mir close to his place of abode in Adoura in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.”
They mentioned Mir was once taken to a medical institution the place medical doctors declared him useless on arrival.
Mir was once an impartial sarpanch.
The realm has been cordoned off and a hunt introduced to nab the attackers, the officers mentioned.
The killing drew condemnations from political events.
Nationwide Convention vp and previous leader minister Omar Abdullah mentioned, “Stunned by means of the centered killing of Sarpanch Shabir Ahmed Mir. Political staff get killed, we provide our condolences, existence is going on after which the similar factor occurs once more. There’s a mind-numbing trend to those killings & our reactions. Unfortunately not anything adjustments.”
“I will simplest be offering my condolences to Shabir’s circle of relatives & my prayers that he unearths position in Jannat. I want his demise was once the final one we’d see however unfortunately that might not be,” he added.
“Strongly condemn the killing of a sarpanch in Kulgam. Might the killers rot in Hell,” Peoples Convention leader Sajad Lone mentioned in a tweet.
The Peoples Convention mentioned it was once worrisome that public representatives had been often being centered to unfold worry.
The Nationwide Convention (NC) expressed surprise over the killing.
“Deeply saddened & stunned by means of the barbaric assault on Sarpanch Shabir Ah Mir in Audura, Kulgam through which he misplaced his existence. We condemn in essentially the most lively method this cowardly assault & specific our private condolences to the circle of relatives of the deceased. Might Allah grant him a spot in Jannat,” the birthday party mentioned on Twitter.
The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir spokesman Altaf Thakur termed the killing barbaric and a cowardice act.
“It’s an assault on democracy and such assaults would possibly not be tolerated,” he mentioned.
Apni Birthday celebration president Altaf Bukhari termed the assault dastardly and inhumane.
“Extraordinarily saddened by means of this dastardly, inhumane assault on a Sarpanch in Kulgam. I unequivocally condemn this terror assault on a grassroots political employee. This can be a 2nd assault on a Panchayat consultant in final two days within the Valley,” Apni Birthday celebration president Altaf Bukhari wrote on Twitter.
On March 9, an impartial sarpanch, Sameer Bhat, was once shot useless by means of terrorists at the outskirts of Srinagar.
On March 2, terrorists shot useless an impartial panchayat member, Mohammad Yaqub Dar, within the Srandoo house of Kulgam.