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India-Pakistan
Two killed in gunbattle in occupied Kashmir: police
2019-08-22
[DAWN] A Kashmiri fighter and a police officer were killed in a gunbattle in occupied 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....
, Indian police said on Wednesday, as tensions simmered in the besieged territory.

The clash in north Kashmir's Baramulla district was the first to be reported by Indian authorities since New Delhi revoked occupied Kashmir's special status on August 5 and imposed a massive security lockdown on the restive region.

A tweet from Kashmir police said that the dead Kashmiri fighter was identified as a local man "affiliated" with 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...
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Related:
Kashmir: 2019-08-20 Opposition parties hold multi-party conference on Maulana Fazlur Rehman's call
Kashmir: 2019-08-19 2 elderly men killed, 1 boy wounded in 'unprovoked' cross-LoC attack by Indian forces
Kashmir: 2019-08-19 At least 4,000 detained in occupied Kashmir since India took away autonomy: govt sources
Related:
Baramulla: 2019-03-21 Encounter at Kalantara area of Kandi Baramulla in North Kashmir
Baramulla: 2018-02-17 Indian troops kill two Kashmiri people in Poonch
Baramulla: 2018-02-04 Two Pak-Trained LeT Militants Arrested in Kashmir
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Lashkar-e-Taiba: 2019-08-08 Actions against banned outfits key to exiting FATF list: US
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