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India-Pakistan

India says battle with Kashmir rebels over after eight killed

2023-09-20

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] India said Tuesday that a weeklong battle between its soldiers and suspected rebels in Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
had ended with eight people killed.

The battle started last Wednesday when ~~bandidos~~ gunnies ambushed and killed two soldiers and a police officer who were patrolling the Gadole forests in the disputed territory.

Over the following days, three more soldiers were found dead after they went missing during the protracted firefight.

The Indian army deployed helicopters and drones and launched bombs into the forests while pursuing the attackers.

Police officer Vijay Kumar said two ~~bandidos~~ gunnies were killed in the battle including Uzair Khan, a local commander of the Pakistain-based krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
"We have spotted one more body of a dead krazed killer," Kumar told news hounds, adding that no more button men were on the lam.

Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistain, with both countries claiming it in full and fighting two wars over control of the Himalayan territory.

A ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful insurgency beginning in 1989 killed tens of thousands of people including Indian troops, ~~bandidos~~ gunnies and civilians.

New Delhi accuses Islamabad of supporting the rebels, claims Pakistain denies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the Indian-administered section of Kashmir of its limited constitutional autonomy in 2019 and imposed direct rule.

Deadly battles between security forces and rebels have been less common in the years since.

Two other shootouts in Kashmir this month claimed the lives of three security forces personnel and five suspected rebels.

One India adds:

"There is a huge area that remains to be searched. There can be a lot of unexploded shells which will be recovered and destroyed. We appeal to the people not to go to the area," he added.

The ADGP said security forces had reports that two to three terrorists were there. "There is a possibility that the third dead body may be somewhere. It will be known after the search is complete," Kumar said.

More from Greater Kashmir:

Speaking to news hounds, Additional Director General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the body of Uzair Khan has been retrieved from the encounter site while another body is lying there.

Responding to a question, Kumar said that they had inputs about the presence of 2-3 snuffies in the area. "Searches are underway in the area to look for the third terrorist," he said.

An Army colonel, a Major, a soldier and a DySP of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed in the encounter which broke out last Wednesday in the Gadole area of Kokernag.

#Kokernagencounter: Operation enters day 7 pic.twitter.com/v6QJU0HdVv
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) September 19, 2023

Posted by:Fred

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