New Delhi: In view of the targeted killings in Kashmir, the government has ordered the transfer of 177 Kashmiri Pandit teachers posted in Srinagar to safer locations. The decision comes following demands to be relocated, India Today reported.
Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level meeting to take stock of the security situation in the wake of attacks targeting the Kashmiri Pandit community and migrant workers.
On June 1, militants gunned down a school teacher in Kashmir. People in Jammu’s Samba district blocked the Pathankot-Jammu national highway, demanding that employees from the division be moved out of the Valley.