Kashmir Girl Attacked for Non-Muslim Garb
Security forces guarded girls’ schools in largely Muslim Kashmir and attendance plunged after assailants threw acid in the face of a 15-year-old girl and at two teachers, police said.
The recent attacks were apparently meant to force women to abide by a Muslim dress code. Handwritten posters asking women to wear black cloaks and cover their faces and men to grow beards have appeared over the past few days in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state.
In letters to local newspapers, a previously unknown militant group, Lashkar Jabbar, claimed to be behind the campaign.
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