Someone has to be held responsible for failure which led to Pahalgam attack :Omar Abdullah

Srinagar, July 15 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said someone has to be held responsible for the intelligence failure which led to April's Pahalgam attack which killed 26 people.

Reacting to a statement by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha-who termed the incident a grave security lapse and took personal responsibility-Omar said such a major attack could not have occurred without a serious breakdown in the system.

"We know there must have been a failure; otherwise, such a big attack would not have happened," Omar told reporters in Srinagar.

"Now, one thing is first acknowledge the failure. After that, who is responsible for the failure? he said it that intelligence also had a failure. So if intelligence had a failure, then who is res...