Major crackdown on Kashmir separatists

Srinagar - About 10,000 paramilitaries started arriving in Kashmir on Saturday, a day after India ordered the reinforcements.

Indian authorities detained over 200 separatists in raids across Kashmir and sent thousands of reinforcements to the troubled territory on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped up warnings to Pakistan over a suicide bomb attack.
As international concern grows over India-Pakistan sabre-rattling, residents of Kashmir, at the centre of a decades-old struggle between the neighbours, reported heightened military activity.
The region has been on edge since the February 14 attack on an Indian convoy which killed 40 soldiers and was claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammed.
India has accused Pakistan of supporting the attack - a claim rejected by the Islamabad government - and there have been widespread calls for nationalist leader Modi to order a reprisal strike.
About 10,000 paramilitaries started arriving in Kashmir on Saturday, a day after India ordered the reinforcements.
Security at airports across the country was boosted on Saturday after Air India's control centre in Mumbai received a phone call threatening to hijack one of its planes to Pakistan, PTI reported.
Modi told a rally in Rajasthan that the country was "angry" about the attack in the Pulwama district of India administered Kashmir.
"After the Pulwama attack, you must have seen how Pakistan is being brought to account one step at a time. They are in a state of panic because of our government's decisions," Modi said, speaking in Hindi. "We will not sit quietly after taking this pain. We know how to crush terrorism," he added. "We have given full freedom to the military."
Among those taken into custody in the crackdown in Kashmir were senior figures in Jamaat-e-Islami and the Hurriyat Conference.

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