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[DAWN] At least four suspected turbans and an Indian army soldier were killed in three separate gun-battles in India-held Kashmire, officials said on Tuesday.Indian Police claimed that the suspects were killed overnight as fighting broke out after Indian government forces cordoned off the forested village of Kellar in southern Kashmire.
Thousands on Tuesday participated in funerals for the three Lion of Islams, chanting slogans including "We want freedom" and "Go India, go back."
The villagers also rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud eulogising turbans and hailing Pakistain.
Earlier on Monday, Indian police said troops killed a top Lion of Islam commander in the northwestern Handwara area. A police statement described the slain Lion of Islam as chief of operations of the Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally
Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf
bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
(JeM).
It said he was the criminal mastermind of several attacks by the group recently, including last week's strike by turbans after they stormed a paramilitary camp near Srinagar's airport. One paramilitary officer and three turbans were killed in that fighting.
The Indian army said a soldier was killed after turbans fired at a patrol party in the Budgam area on Monday.