A large number of people staged protests outside the Pakistan Embassy in Nepal‘s capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday against the recent terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which left 26 people, including a Nepali national, dead.
The terrorists targeted and killed non-Muslim tourists in the picturesque Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam on April 22 in one of the worst terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in recent years.
The Nepal Citizens’ Campaign demonstrated in front of the Embassy, reported The Rising Nepal.
The demonstrators were seen holding Nepali flags and images of the deceased Nepali tourist Sudeep Neupane (27) while protesting against the deadly attack in the Indian tourist hub that has drawn worldwide condemnation.
The protesters were heard chanting cries such as “Down with Islamic Terrorism”, “Pakistan Terrorist Army”, and “Stop Killing Hindus”, UNI news agency reported.
According to reports, protesters also sent a note to the Pakistani Embassy and asked it to stop supporting terrorism.
Slit-throat Gesture In London
A senior Pakistan Army officer made a controversial throat-slit gesture at the Indian diaspora who had gathered outside the Pakistan High Commission in London, protesting against the Pahalgam terror attack that took place on April 22.
As the Indian diaspora were raising slogans, Colonel Taimur Rahat, who is the Pakistan Army and Air Advisor in the High Commission in London, flashed a poster of Indian fighter pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by Islamabad after India conducted an airstrike to counter the 2019 Pulwama terror attack.
Along with the poster, Colonel Rahat made the throat-slit gesture at the protesters, who called it not just an “insensitivity” but a “provocation”.
More than 500 members of the Indian and Jewish communities in the UK had gathered outside the High Commission in London to protest against the attack, which had killed 26 tourists, mostly Hindus, at Baisaran Valley in the popular tourist spot of Pahalgam in South Kashmir.
The protesters waved Indian flags, blamed Pakistan for backing the terror outfits, demanded justice and appealed to the UK to take diplomatic action against Islamabad.
Modi Declares War On Terrorism
The terror attack, which has drawn widespread condemnation from world leaders, has led India and its arch-rival Pakistan to a fresh confrontation, a major one since the Pulwama terror attack, which was backed by Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in 2019.
After several diplomatic strikes on Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised retaliation and said the terrorists and their backers will pay unimaginable costs for the attack on innocent tourists.
Addressing a rally in Bihar’s Madhubani, the Prime Minister significantly switched to English and said: “From the soil of Bihar, I tell the whole world that India will identify them and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the end of the earth. India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism. Terrorism will not go unpunished.”
(With inputs from IBNS)
