Two militants killed in #Kulgam gunfight: police | https://t.co/zdjbebkvCh
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Police on Monday claimed to have killed two Death Eaters affiliated with the al-Badr outfit in a shootout in Hasanpora area located on the border between Kulgam and Anantnag districts 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....
"Based on a specific input generated by Kulgam Police regarding presence of forces of Evil in village Hasanpora situated on border between Kulgam and Anantnag, a joint cordon and search operation was launched yesterday evening by Police and 1stRR in the said area," a police front man said.
"During the search operation, as the joint search party proceeded towards the suspected spot, the hiding forces of Evil fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter. In the ensuing encounter, two forces of Evil of proscribed terror outfit al-Badr were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of the encounter, " he added while identifying the slain duo as Imad Muzaffar Wani resident of Arigam Pulwama and Abdul Rashid Thoker resident of Hassanpora.
Police further said the two "were part of groups involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on security forces and civilian atrocities". "Besides, terrorist Imad Wani was involved in attack on police personnel Mushtaq Ahmad Wagay of Pulwama on 19-12-2021, in which the said police personnel got seriously injured. While as, killed terrorist Abdul Rashid Thoker, before joining terrorist ranks was working as terrorist associate and was also involved in attack on a civilian at Chitragam in which said civilian got injured".
It said "incriminating" materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from the site of encounter, which have been taken into case records for further investigation.