Washington DC, April 24 -- The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has strongly criticised prominent Western news outlets for what it called a "shameful and deliberate erasure" of the religious targeting involved in the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, reported The Times of India.

In the ghastly terror attack, selectively targeted against the people of the Hindu religion, 26 tourists were killed by terrorists affiliated with The Resistance Front, a known proxy of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Suhag Shukla, Executive Director of HAF, issued a searing statement taking aim at the international media's treatment of the incident.

"Let's get this straight," she said, "Terrorists from the Resistance Front, a Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot...