Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a high-level meeting over the violence in Jammu and Kashmir that has claimed over 30 lives, and appealed for calm even as curfew continued for the fourth consecutive day in the Valley.
The officer, according to her post, repeatedly kept asking her questions to test her 'knowledge' about the country and even told her that 'she did not look like an Indian'.
Amid recurring clashes in curfew-bound Kashmir Valley, three injured protesters died in hospitals here on Monday, taking the death toll to 32 in three days of bloodshed following the killing of a top militant that has sparked fresh India-Pakistan tensions.
Sonia Gandhi expressed deep anguish at the loss of innocent lives in the senseless violence in parts of J&K in past few days.
Exiled Kashmiri leader Nasir Aziz Khan the Kashmiri people, that Pakistan "has no love with Kashmiris. She is exploiting religious sentiments of the Kashmiris and is plundering their natural resources.”
Political self-goals by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have put Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in an advantageous position just months ahead of assembly elections in the state.