Congress questions Modi government's 'silence' on recent Poonch attack

The Congress on April 27 questioned the Modi government’s “silence” on the Poonch attack and cited several terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir recently to accuse the Centre of endangering national security.

The Congress on April 27 questioned the Modi government's "silence" on the Poonch attack and cited several terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir recently to accuse the Centre of endangering national security.

Five Army personnel were killed and another was seriously injured on April 20 after their vehicle caught fire following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Congress' media department head Pawan Khera said seven days have passed, but Prime Minster Narendra Modi has "not uttered a single word" of condolence on the Poonch terror attack for the five Indian Army soldiers but was seen cracking a rather crude joke about a "suicide of a girl" at a media event on April 27.

Poonch attack | Terrorists used steel bullets, decamped with soldiers’ weapons

"PM Modi has not come out with any reaction condemning the terror attack, even as reports indicate a Taliban link in the same," Mr. Khera said.

He said multiple media reports indicate that the highly penetrative and ricocheting 'steel core' bullets used by terrorists was left behind by the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, after they departed the country in August 2021.