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SHOCKING! `What was the need to kill Burhan Wani` - BJP`s ally PDP asks Modi govt in Lok Sabha
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday witnessed sharp reactions from various parties over killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.
New Delhi: The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday witnessed sharp reactions from various parties over killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.
In a surprising development, BJP's partner in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP, has raised questions on the Wani's killing!
"What was the need to kill Burhan Wani," PDP MP Muzzafar Beg asked the Modi government in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Beg also questioned the timing of the encounter.
"If Wani was on the radar of intelligence agencies why was he not arrested earlier," Muzzafar Beg asked.
Kashmir unrest
Life remained paralysed for the 13th day in Kashmir Valley as authorities continued to impose curfew on Thursday, following extension in the separatists called protest shutdown.
The violence started on July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in a gunfight with the security forces. Forty five people including 43 civilians and two local policemen, were killed in the clashes in the valley.