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Amarnath Yatra resumes after one-day security suspension
According to ABP Live, the Amarnath Yatra resumed out of Jammu on Thursday, a day after officials suspended movement over heightened security tied to the seventh anniversary of Article 370's abrogation. Some…
According to ABP Live, the Amarnath Yatra resumed out of Jammu on Thursday, a day after officials suspended movement over heightened security tied to the seventh anniversary of Article 370's abrogation. Some 1,801 pilgrims made up the 28th batch, 1,347 men, 351 women, 89 sadhus and 14 sadhvis, who set out from Bhagwati Nagar at 2.45 am aboard 74 vehicles headed for Baltal, that day's convoy skipped the Pahalgam route entirely. By that point, officials had counted 1,43,513 pilgrims departed from Jammu this season, with the shrine's total footfall already past 4.71 lakh. Scheduled to run 57 days, the yatra is due to wrap up on 28 August. Neither the precise security trigger for the pause nor independent verification of these tallies appears in what ABP Live published.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The one-day halt and its quick reversal point to a security posture tied to a specific date rather than a sustained threat, though the record does not say what that concern was. The scale of the movement, more than 1.4 lakh pilgrims already departed and above 4.71 lakh arrivals at the shrine, indicates a pilgrimage running at high volume this season, resting on official tallies rather than an independent count. No convoy travelling the Pahalgam route on the day of resumption leaves open whether that route resumes on its own schedule. The pilgrimage's scheduled close on 28 August is the fixed date against which its final numbers can be checked.
Source: news.abplive.com
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