India’s crackdown in Kashmir sparks anger

Anger in Indian-occupied Kashmir escalated on Monday over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly Pahalgam attack last week. Gunmen killed 26 people on April 22, the worst attack on civilians in contested Muslim-majority Kashmir for a quarter of a century. The attack sparked a huge manhunt for the gunmen in Kashmir, with Indian security forces blowing up nine homes of suspected rebels, as well as detaining nearly 2,000 people for questioning, a senior police official told AFP. “Punish the guilty, show them no mercy, but don’t let innocent people become collateral damage,” Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in a statement.