...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....
police have averted a major tragedy by destroying an IED in Pulwama.
The Pulwama Police averted a major tragedy. Acting on specific information the police along with the 50 RR and 183 BN CRPF found an IED of approximately 5 kilograms.
Is that large? Small? It isn’t clear to me whether the tragedy truly would have been major or not — One India does get a bit excited about such things.
The same was planted on the New Srinagar road. The bomb disposal squad of the Police and Army destroyed it on the spot, the Pulwama police said.Earlier this week, the Pulwama police arrested 2 terrorist associates 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...
with the assistance of the 55 RR and 182 Bn. CRPF. The police recovered incriminating material and ammunition from them. A case was registered against them and further investigation is continuing.