Srinagar, Feb. 6 -- National Conference MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi on Wednesday condemned the "detentions of 500 people" in Jammu and Kashmir after the Kulgam terror attack, saying that "punishing an entire population for the actions of a few is not counterterrorism but collective retribution".
On Monday, terrorists shot dead Manzoor Ahmad Wagay, an ex-serviceman, and injured his wife and 13-year-old niece in an attack in South Kashmir's Kulgam district.
"I unequivocally condemn the attack on the Territorial Army soldier and his family. Violence, especially against women and children, is abhorrent. But to punish an entire population for the crimes of a few is not counterterrorism - it is collective retribution," Mehdi said in a post on X.
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