Indian President and her family narrowly escapes from severe bad weather and Islamic militants in Kashmir’s Pahalgam
Sania Mani
May 26, 2008

An IAF helicopter carrying Indian President Pratibha Patil and her family made an emergency landing in a village near Pahalgam. Official sources said that the MI-17 helicopters, had to make emergency landing in a village 20 miles from the tourist attraction Pahalgam.

The area is infested with Islamic militants. Some sources are saying it was Islamic militants that fired on the choppers. The official Indian version is that one chopper had to land in a village because of bad weather.

Sources said that despite developing a technical snag, no one was hurt when the helicopter made the emergency landing. Earlier in the morning, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil had to undertake a road journey from Gulmarg tourist resort to Srinagar airport as her helicopter could not take off from here due to inclement weather conditions, official sources said.

Chief Minister promised the people that President would visit Bhaderwah tomorrow if the weather improves. It has been reliably learnt that the visit of President Pratibha Patel has been rescheduled and she would be visiting Bhaderwah tomorrow.

Patil was to inaugurate Jammu University's Bhaderwah campus. The visit would have been the first by any President of country to this region since independence. "People here are disappointed as they wanted to see the President, the first to be here. However, due to bad weather, she could not fly down to inaugurate Jammu University's Bhaderwah campus," Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said while talking to the reporters.

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