Kashmir’s chief cleric Mr. Farooq said the people of J&K remember the Pahalgam victims ‘with deep sorrow’. However, he also drew attention to other massacres witnessed in Kashmir
Raashid Ahmad Mughal was accused of being an armed terrorist by the Army and was “killed during a search operation launched on March 31-April 1 in Ganderbal’s Arhama forest”
Investigators searched 19 locations, including in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Haryana, and recovered incriminating material
The Army on April 1 claimed to have killed a terrorist in Ganderbal’s Arhama forest area during a cordon and search operation
The Army has claimed that the man killed in the encounter in Arhama forests on March 31 — identified as Ganderbal resident Rashid Ahmad Mughal — was a terrorist