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India on Tuesday blamed Pakistan for the massacre of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in a south Kashmir village and said violence in the state was continuing because of that country.
Terming the massacre of the Pandits as a "cold-blooded murder," Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, without naming Pakistan, told reporters that "this is an act of our neighbour and violence in the state is continuing only because of them."
He declined to reply whether the "healing touch" policy of Mufti Mohd Sayeed government hampered tackling militancy in the state and said "I will collect the report and brief the Cabinet Committee on Security once I go back (to Delhi) in the evening."
Advani, who is paying a visit to Nandimarg village where the massacre took place on Monday, said the security of the state was primarily the responsibility of the Centre with active support of the state government.
"When the new government in the state took over, I had conveyed to the Chief Minister that while development is the main concern of the state, the security will be looked after by the Centre," he said.
Advani said the Nadimarg incident had left "serious wounds on the entire Kashmiri community that has migrated to safer place in Jammu and Delhi."
Advani is accompanied by State Governor Girish Chander Saxena, National Conference president Omar Abdullah, director of Intelligence Bureau KP Singh and senior civil and police officials.
Omar Abdullah squarely blamed Pakistan-based terrorist outfits like Lashker-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed for the Nandimarg massacre.
He flayed the Mufti Sayeed government for being "soft" towards terrorists and said while healing touch is welcome, the Chief Minister's primary concern should be towards ensuring security in the state.
Omar said no state government could dare to be complacent towards the security of the people of the state.
He criticised leaders of separatist Hurriyat Conference, especially its former chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, for adopting "double standard" and not outrightly condemning the Nadimarg incident.
"They can only call hartal and they
have chosen a day when the entire Kashmir valley is in grief. Obviously,
in the evening they will claim that the bandh was successful," the former
Union minister said and termed Hurriyat as "hartal conference."
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