Hyderabad, April 23 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday morning demanded that the government punish "terrorists" involved in the killings of innocent tourists in the Pahalgam terrorist attack and said that the incident was an "intelligence failure".

He stated that the central government must examine whether its deterrence policy on terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir was working or not. Owaisi demanded that the government fix accountability in the matter, saying that the killing of tourists was more condemnable than the Uri and Pulwama attacks.

"This is an intelligence failure, too. The government has to analyse whether its deterrence policy is successful. This incident is more condemnable than ...