Srinagar, Aug 11: Minority staff working in Kashmir have been directed to earn a living from home following two again to again terror assaults in south Kashmir and on-line terror menace named Kashmir Pandits.
The safety companies have come throughout on-line threats with the names of Kashmiri Pandits, who’re working within the Valley as authorities staff, The New Indian Categorical reported.
The report acknowledged that the directives observe two terror assaults that broke the calm in Kashmir final month.
On June 22, 2026 terrorists fired upon a policeman Ashiq Hussain Qureshi in Anantnag city when he was performing Amarnath Yatra responsibility. In one other incident, two migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh had been shot and killed by unidentified terrorists at a brick kiln within the Kelam space of Kulgam district on July 31, 2026. One employee died initially, and the second injured employee succumbed to his accidents the next morning throughout remedy at Srinagar hospital.
The threats are believed to have been issued by the shadow outfit United Liberation Council of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The menace posters circulated on-line carried an inventory of KP staff together with their telephone numbers.
The group shared the names of the six staff, together with their telephone numbers, and claimed that that they had full particulars, together with names of their members of the family and areas. Sources stated after the menace, safety forces have elevated safety within the areas the place the Pandits reside.
In view of the safety issues, the administration has requested Pandit staff posted within the Valley to earn a living from home for a while.
“We have now been informed to earn a living from home until August 25,” stated a PM Package deal Kashmiri Pandit worker. An influential Pandit group—Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS) stated the latest terror assaults in south Kashmir, adopted by contemporary menace posters naming Kashmiri Pandit staff have as soon as once more uncovered the chilling sense of vulnerability amongst KPs in Kashmir.
The KPSS questioned how the private particulars of six staff together with their telephone numbers, grew to become public. “Was it a safety lapse, a confidentiality breach or a deliberate leak?” the group requested.
“Repair the loopholes. Shield the susceptible—earlier than historical past repeats itself,” the KPSS posted on X.
One other KP group Panun Kashmir convenor Dr Agnishekhar stated publication of names and private contact particulars accompanied by specific threats to people and their households is a matter of grave concern.
