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LET holds out death threat against census: PTI

The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LET) handed out a death threat to 22,000 government employees, if they participated in the population head-count operation, less than a week after the Hizbul Mujahideen opposed the census in Jammu and Kashmir.

"If any employee is seen participating in the census operation, he or she will be killed without warning," LET spokesman Abu Ubaid said in a statement in Srinagar on Thursday.

He said the decision to warn the employees was taken at a meeting of the command council of the outfit in Srinagar and activists of the outfit have been directed to take action against those found participating in the exercise.

The LET warning came even as government allayed apprehensions by former Union minister Saifuddin Soz on the census' reliability and asserted there was no scope for manipulation to change the demographic pattern of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Hizb renewed its call to call off the census, saying the time was "not appropriate for such an exercise as many people had migrated to Jammu and other parts of the country''.

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