Amritsar, April 23 || The Akal Takht's officiating Jathedar, Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj, on Wednesday condemned the attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
Expressing grief over the incident, he offered prayers before the Akal Purakh, seeking eternal peace for the departed souls and strength for the bereaved families to accept His will.
He also prayed that such inhumane acts should never occur anywhere in the world and that peace and harmony should prevail across the nation and the world.
Jathedar Gargaj said the Pahalgam tragedy deeply pained him and reminded him of the March 2000 massacre in Chittisinghpura in Kashmir in which 35 Sikhs were killed, but the truth was "yet to come to light".
Echoing similar sentiments, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President Harjinder Singh Dhami said: "This inhuman and brutal act had deeply hurt the values of society."