Key officials met here Thursday to discuss plans to stop these Pakistan Day celebrations. Intelligence services have alerted the Home Ministry that scores of platforms have been erected across rural Kashmir for unprecedented Pakistan Day flag-ceremonies. These, sources told The Indian Express, are to be led by local-level militant commanders and secessionist politicians. Earlier, south Kashmir’s Lashkar-e-Taiba chief, code-named Abu Dujana, attended remembrance ceremonies for Burhan Wani at Kareemabad, Arwani, Kaimoh and other villages in South Kashmir. Local Pakistan Day parades were sometimes organised by militant groups in 1988-1989 in the years before troops established their presence in the more remote parts of Kashmir’s countryside.

Source: Indian Express August 11, 2016 21:45 UTC