New Delhi: Two militant outfits, the Al-Mansoorain and the Islamic Jehad Front have claimed responsibility for the attack in the high security Tulsibagh area of Jammu and Kashmir today.
J&K Minister of State for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone was killed when fidayeen launched an attack on his heavily guarded house.
An Al Mansoorian spokesman called the BBC office in Srinagar and said claimed its members carried out the attack.
Soon after a spokesman from the Islamic Jehad Front called the CNS news agency and claimed responsibility for the attack.
J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed condemned the attack and terming it a ?brutal act? while his government declared a holiday today in view of the unfortunate event.
Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma said the government would probe as to how the militants managed to enter the high-security Tulsibagh area, where the majority of Ministers and top bureaucrats of J&K reside.
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti said that the killing of Ghulam Nabi Lone was an attempt to divert the attention of the administration from the relief operation in the quake-affected areas.
Condemning the killing, the BJP asked the UPA government to review its alleged "soft" policies towards terrorists, separatists and Naxalites.
"Not a single day has passed in the last 15 months when some or the other terrorist incident has not taken place. The soft policies of the Congress-led central and state governments are encouraging such anti-national and anti-social forces," party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told PTI.
He also regretted that at a time when the entire country was dealing with the disaster caused by the devastating earthquake in J&K, the terrorists were indulging in acts of violence.
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