Srinagar, Feb. 5 -- Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) leader and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Ruhullah Mehdi on Wednesday hit out at the Union government over the "detention of over 500 people" after Kulgam attack, saying that punishing an "entire population" for the "actions of a few is not counterterrorism but collective retribution."
Mehdi was responding to the reports that said that over 500 people have been detained in a massive crackdown across the valley in wake of killing of a retired soldier Manzoor Ahmad Wagay in south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Monday. His wife and niece were also wounded in the terror attack.
The report said that those detained were largely relatives of Kashmiri militants based in Pakistan and...