Srinagar, Oct. 29 -- Amid heightened tension due to sporadic incidents of violence and a shutdown, a delegation of Members of European Parliament (MEPs) reached here on Tuesday to gauge the local situation and met various groups.
It is the first foreign delegation to visit Kashmir after the scrapping of Article 370 on August 5.
After checking into at a five-star hotel here, the MEPs were taken to the Army's 15 Corps headquarters at Badami Bagh where top army commanders briefed them about the situation in Kashmir.
The delegation had lunch at the 15 Corps HQ.
Afterwards, they later met delegations of the Janata Dal-United and the Bharatiya Janata Party, representatives of panches and the sarpanches from the Valley, as well as some of the ...