People stand near the home of the destroyer Al -Kashmiri family, the best sheikh’s first right in the Moran area in the Poloa area on April 26, 2025.
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Poloa, India-Indian authorities detained at least 1500 people in Kashmir, which India managed after a militant attack that killed 26 people last week. Several houses associated with alleged gunmen have also been destroyed.
India has accused Pakistan of attacking the attack – the worst targeting Indian civilians for more than a decade – claiming that the group that claimed responsibility is supported by the Pakistani army. This tensions between the two countries have increased nuclear armed countries, who control parts of Kashmir, but are demanding the ownership of the entire region.
A statement issued by the Pakistani Prime Minister expressed concern about the loss of tourists, and denied any responsibility for the deadly agitation in the Mountains of the Alps on Tuesday – where it seemed that gunmen targeting the Hindu men, before they fleeing to the mysterious mountains before the security forces arrived. Days after the attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaibaz Sharif He said They were open to a “neutral and transparent probe” to what happened.
Over the course of last week, India has suspended visas for Pakistani visitors, expelled some of its diplomats, and stopped a contract of contracts that divide six rivers between the two countries. Pakistan has announced Tit-FOR-TAT measures. Also suspended across border trade and closed the Pakistani airspace of Indian aircraft.
An elderly man inspects the family’s house demolition from the alleged Kashmiri militants, Adel Thoker in the village of Guree, in southern Kashmir.
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But some of the Kashmiri residents visited by NPR say that Indian officials have taken other measures within the region of the region that controls it. VK Birdi, an Indian police officer in the area, said that the five -year -old homes were destroyed. He did not say who carried out demolitions, and other Indian authorities did not respond to NPR requests for suspension.
Roh Allah MahdiA member of Parliament from the ruling National Congress Party in Kashmir said that he had received several messages from the residents in the villages where the homes were detonated. “They are sure that these actions have carried out the security forces. It is also easy to understand – who will be able to go and detonate houses like this?”
The family of the family of the suspect NPR told the security forces that the security forces fled their house with the explosives they detonated, which brought down their house early on Saturday.
The police campaign began Thursday evening, after two days of the attack, when NPR confirmed that the homes of three suspect militants had been destroyed – alongside the only man’s house that the Indian authorities called suspects involved in the attack, Adel Thowkar.
When NPR visited the Thokar house in Anantnag on Saturday, the two -storey home house to the rubble was reduced. The kitchen remained standing only, it can only be reached through a broken window.
Thockar Shahzada’s mother told NPR that the security forces transported her and her neighbors about a hundred meters from their home on Friday, before being dropped in an explosion.
Thowkar’s mother was standing next to a pile of rubble, she would support the punishment for her son if he was convicted. “But I have not seen him since joining the armed ranks in 2018,” she said.
She said that the police also detained her husband, brother and cousins.
Shoes covered with dust and brick in a devastating house in the village of Moran in the Poloama area, Kashmir, on April 26, 2025.
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About 20 miles in the adjacent Polama region, Yasmina, another sister Suspect Asmour Sheikh told NPR that her family’s house was destroyed by explosives early on Friday, doors and windows were dismantled in the two -level house.
“They planned for this,” said Yasmina – who uses only one name – referring to the security forces. “Hours ago, they closed all the livestock – and not only we have – in pens, and they asked us to put fingers in our ear. When we asked why, they said that the explosion would happen in your home.”
In another village, the neighbors said another house SuspectAHSAN UL Haq Sheikh was detonated on Friday night.
One of the neighbors, who spoke to NPR, said, provided that his identity was not revealed for fear of revenge, that his son called him to rush to the house because the security forces were surrounding the area. My husband, son and daughter were kept in a room and asked to stay in their homes. I was in a neighbors ’house. There were two explosions – we felt that everything had ended. “
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The shattered windows explode from the neighboring houses, break the doors and cut the walls. “If this is one person’s mistake, then why should anyone be punished for that?” The neighbor said.
In recent years, the Indian government has often ordered the demolition of the homes of criminal activity, and bulldozers are often used. Thanks to these incidents, the Hindu Nationalist Garata Party was accused of spreading “bulldozers justice” – destruction House and livelihoods of the Muslim community minority.
Mahdi, the Kashmiri legislator, said: “These actions serve the right -wing agenda on both sides.” “The terrorists who killed these innocent people in Bahama, and the right -wing other, who want to communicate this country.”