- SRINAGAR — As a precautionary measure following the heinous terror attack in
Pahalgam, the authorities have directed the government employees engaged under
the PM’s rehab package to work from home till April 27 in Kashmir
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- Orders issued initially by the district education
officer, Baramulla, were later circulated by officials in other districts of
the Valley asking PM package employees to work from home till April 27 and not
attend their places of posting.
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- PM’s rehab package was announced by the erstwhile UPA
government at the Centre for the displaced Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to
abandon their homes under threats from the terrorists in the 1990s.
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- The decision to allow the PM package government employees
to work from home comes in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack in
which 26 people, including 25 tourists and a local, were killed by terrorists
in Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam on April 22.
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- A massive operation to trace and hunt down the terrorists
is underway. The operation is tech-assisted using drones, helicopters, surveillance
electronic equipment and sniffer dogs.
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- India has reacted to Pakistan-sponsored and directed
terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir by suspending the Indus Water Treaty signed by
the two countries in 1960.
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- The Attari border crossing point has been shut. The staff
at India’s High Commission in Pakistan has been brought down to 30 per cent.
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- All Pakistani nationals presently in India have been
directed to vacate within 48 hours, and military attachés at the Pakistani High
Commission in India have been declared persona non grata.
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- Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the families of the
Pahalgam terror attack on Wednesday. He condoled the loss of their dear ones
and assured them that the blood of the innocents spilt by the terrorists would
be avenged.
