Militants have shot dead five Hindu labourers working on a remote mountain road in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
Four labourers were reportedly hurt in the attack, which took place late on Thursday night in Rajouri district, some 150km from the city of Jammu.
Hindus are often targeted by militants fighting Indian rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
A BBC correspondent says the attack comes amid a recent lull in violence.
Coalition partners in the state government have been discussing a cut in the number of Indian troops deployed in the region.
The district of Rajouri, bordering Pakistan, is regarded as a hotbed of militant activity.
India accuses Pakistan of recruiting and arming the militants, a charge Pakistan denies. The two countries have twice gone to war over the divided region of Kashmir.
India should note that the non-muslims in this area are surviving on the mercy of friggin fanatic terrorists. Already, many Kashmiri Pundits have been displaced from their homeland and are living in different parts of India like refugees
Adequate security is a must for workers and their families engaged in various construction activities, because terrorists will always try their best to obstruct any effort for development and growth.
Hindus there are at the mercy of the militants and probably live in constant fear.
The genocide of Kashmiri Hindus during and after 1989 where close to 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus were the victims of ethnic cleansing and were pushed out of their state as well as the thousands that were killed by torture methods. Kashmiri hindus have been tortured to death by militants(from across the border) has always been tossed under the rug and it amazes me that the plight of the Kashmiri pandit has never been addressed by anybody including the Indian government.
the whole area is a mess, I am in full sipport of an independent kashmir. miltants shooting innocent hindus, indian military killing innocent muslims and covering it up.
the lameness in that area just never stops amazing me.
the whole area is a mess, I am in full sipport of an independent kashmir. miltants shooting innocent hindus, indian military killing innocent muslims and covering it up.
the lameness in that area just never stops amazing me.
And in an independent Kashmir the non-Muslim communities will lead a peacful life, Hindu Brahmins will return to the valley, bla-bla.
I don't think an independent kashmir will really look after it's minority Hindu and Buddhist population. I just keep wondering since all Kashmiris(Hindu, Muslim and Budhists) lived together peacefully before 1989, what were the Muslim majority thinking when their Hindu brothers and sisters were being tortured to death and pushed out of Kashmir all these years. They must have been good friends and neighbors before all this. Why didn't the Kashmiri muslims rise up against the militants in support of their friends?
The pandits were the original inhabitants of Kashmir. And now most of the small percentage of Kashmiri Pandits that have survived are living like refugees in their own country with all of their belongings and homes destroyed by the militants. After all this, I can't imagine them all living together peacefully considering the horrific events they've experienced.
I just keep wondering since all Kashmiris(Hindu, Muslim and Budhists) lived together peacefully before 1989, what were the Muslim majority thinking when their Hindu brothers and sisters were being tortured to death and pushed out of Kashmir all these years. They must have been good friends and neighbors before all this. Why didn't the Kashmiri muslims rise up against the militants in support of their friends?
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It is all because of CIA-ISI trained brainwashed jehadis who were used to kick soviets out of afghanistan. In 1989 soviets pulled out of afghanistan. after that CIA didn't care much and just abandoned with out dismantling them without realizing that it could backfire(which exactly what happened. Fifteen years later US soldiers themselves are fighting against these in afghanistan. ). and, pakistan also played a huge role by sending some of those jehadis after fighting russians into india. no wonder, kashmiri conflict started in 1989.
lets stop for a moment.....
how can you say with 100 % surity that there were really "millitants"
can black cat commandos of Reseaech and Anaylisis Wing (RAW) dressed in shalwar qameez cannot do this...as they did when bill clinton came india 5 6 years ago and killed 35 hindus....
millitants time and again said that thier fight is with indian forces...no common hindu workers and common hindhu men...even islam does not allow to fight with man having no arms.....
to put a blame on millitants ...give them bad name in international media and stop thier massive moral support from local kashmiris....
i also think that what Mr.Fraudia very well said...that it should be independent...but plz...do not blame anyone if you have no proof...if you say what western media say...thats same what BBC say Bhagat Singh ...Aatik Wadi while you people call him Daish Bhagat .....why these double standards...
lets stop for a moment.....
how can you say with 100 % surity that there were really "millitants"
can black cat commandos of Reseaech and Anaylisis Wing (RAW) dressed in shalwar qameez cannot do this...as they did when bill clinton came india 5 6 years ago and killed 35 hindus....
millitants time and again said that thier fight is with indian forces...no common hindu workers and common hindhu men...even islam does not allow to fight with man having no arms.....
yeah right.....RAW did it before 1989 so that kashmiris go ahead india itself. so basically RAW is anti-india according to you. and just because so and so is not prescirbed in some rule book, it doesn't necessarily mean that people will completely adhere to it.
And in an independent Kashmir the non-Muslim communities will lead a peacful life, Hindu Brahmins will return to the valley, bla-bla.
yeah I dunno about that, afterall majority of my family was massacred by civilians in what is India now after the partition, so yeah I dont think that people would live in peace even after militants and crooked indian military men stop their hanky panky.
the Buddhist, Sikhs and Hindus in Kashmir don't want to secede from India and Kashmir belongs to them as much as it does to the Muslims.
Why is it that only the Muslims in Kashmir want to be independent now. If there was really that much unhappiness in 1989 and a strong need for freedom then almost every single person in Kashmir would've been in support of independence which was not the case at all. It was only a certain percentage of the Muslim population that wanted this and that too not all Muslims.
I just feel like there was a large amount of brainwashing involved or else how is it that people would turn their backs on a community they’ve been peacefully living with for 6 centuries and look the other way when friends and neighbors are being raped, tortured to death and pushed out.
“Our neighbours told us not to worry - not to think of leaving. But they also said they would be unable to intervene if outsiders came to attack us.
Young men, who I had seen grow up from the time they were little boys, began threatening us. They wanted to declare an Islamic state, they said. It was quite clear that there would be no place for us.”
Also our "peace loving" neighbor, who every now and then keep appealing to whole world that they want a "peaceful" settlement of all issues, but it's damn India who never takes them seriously in a so called "peaceful dialogues".