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LeT commander Umar Khanday among two militants killed in Pampore gunfight
2021-10-17
[GREATERKASHMIR] A Lashkar commander is among two Lions of Islam killed in a shootout with security forces at Drangbal area of Pampore in south 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....
's Pulwama district on Saturday.

"Pampore Encounter Update: 02 bully boyz killed. #Incriminating materials including arms & ammunition recovered.

Search going on. Further details shall follow, " a police front man said.

Police identified the slain LeT commander as Umar Mushtaq Khanday it said killed two cops Mohammad Yousuf and Suhail Ahmad at Baghat area of uptown Srinagar on February 19.

The identity of the second hard boy killed in today's shootout was not immediately known. The shootout broke out in the early hours today after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off about the presence of Lions of Islam there.
One India names the second dead turban as Suhail, adding:
Earlier the police had said that Khanday a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander has been trapped during an operation in Pulwama. He was named among the top ten terrorists by the police along with Salim Parray, Yousuf Kantroo, Abbas Sheikh, Reyaz Shetergund, Farooq Nali, Zubair Wani and Ashraf Molvi, Saqib Manzoor and Wakeel Shah.
Another One India article notes:
Following civilian killings, J&K police gunned down 13 terrorists in 9 encounters.
Related:
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Pampore: 2021-08-20 Encounter started between militants and joint forces at Khrew, Pampore area of Awantipora. 2 hizb militants are believed to be trapped
Pampore: 2021-08-08 Al-Badr militant killed in Budgam gunfight
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