WATCH: BJP youth wing protests in Jammu over soldiers' death; netizens want boycotting India-Pak cricket match

BJP’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) held an anti-Pakistan protest in Jammu after three security personnel, Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish Dhonak and DSP Humayun Bhat died during an encounter in Anantnag on Wednesday. The group paid tribute to the slain soldiers and also demanded tough action to be taken against terrorism and Pakistan.

Joining BJYM, workers of Dogra Front staged a protest in Jammu against Pakistan.

Similar protests were carried out yesterday at night.   Meanwhile, security forces on Thursday encircled two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists holed up in a building in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag where three security officers were killed in an encounter a day earlier, said police. According to media reports, citing army sources, these terrorists have been entering the Valley via Nepal and their objective is to promote terror.

Colonel Manpreet Singh, Commanding Officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Deputy Superintendent Humayun Bhat were critically injured in the gunfight with terrorists that ensued in the Garol area of Anantnag district in the morning hours of Wednesday.

The officers succumbed to their injuries during the treatment, officials said, adding a jawan also died. The whereabouts of another soldier were not immediately known and it is feared he might have been seriously wounded. ‘No cricket with Pakistan’ The terrorist attack in Jammu has triggered massive outrage among Indians, many of whom took to social media to boycott cricket with Pakistan. “Shut each & everything with Pakistan, no Cricket, trade nothing,” one user wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

“For those who advocated why can’t the Indian cricket team play in Pakistan in the Asia Cup matches. Here is the reply given by Pakistan by action. Supporting terrorist attacks in India,” said another.

‘Avenged the death of leader’ According to a report by India Today, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offshoot The Resistance Front has claimed responsibility for the attack in Anantnag and Kokernag. The terrorist group stated that the attack was an act of revenge for the death of their veteran leader in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) earlier this month.