 "Indian community protests in Melbourne, Australia against the Pahalgam attack.")
Indian diaspora members held protests across the world on Sunday to condemn Tuesday’s horrific terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam which left at least 26 people dead including foreign tourists and injured several others.
Demonstrations took place in cities such as Paris, Zurich, Helsinki, Melbourne, and parts of Spain, where community members paid tribute to the victims and strongly denounced terrorism.
Earlier on Friday, more than 500 British Hindus staged a protest outside the Pakistan Embassy in London. Waving Indian flags and carrying banners and placards, they raised slogans against terrorism and accused Pakistan of sheltering groups responsible for such violence. The protesters also demanded justice for the victims.
Tensions escalated during the protests when a senior Pakistan Army officer, Colonel Taimur Rahat, who serves as the Army and Air Advisor at the Pakistan High Commission in London was caught on camera making a throat-slitting gesture at Indian protestors. Footage of the incident quickly went viral.
On April 22, terrorists linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba ambushed a group of tourists in Pahalgam, killing at least 26 people and injuring many others. The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar proxy, claimed responsibility for the deadly assault, marking one of the deadliest attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in recent times.