India will crush Pak proxy war: Advani

Advani stoutly rejected suggestions that India was also creating trouble in Pakistan just as that country was engaging in a proxy war with India.He said that the militants had shifted their focus from the Valley to the Jammu region. Clarifying that he had not said that incidents like these would not recur, he noted that the situation had changed for the better in the Valley for the first time this year. More and more tourists were visiting the Valley, he said.

The HomeMinister informed the House that the Union Home Secretary, the BSF Director General and the Additional Director General, Military Operations had rushed to the site of the massacre. While members in the Upper House debated the issue without scoring political points, parties in the Lok Sabha traded charges against each other.

While many Opposition MPs bayed for the Home Minister’s blood and sought his resignation, the ruling combine retaliated by blaming the Congress and other Opposition parties for the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.