#Kulgam gunfight: One of two slain militants was active for five years, police say https://t.co/VnKIkkuvuY
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Police on Tuesday identified the two Jaish faceless myrmidons killed in an overnight firefight with security forces in Kulgam district of 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....
as Jameel Pasha alias Usman Chachu, a Pak and Sameer Sofi son of Farooq Ahmad Sofi of Amshipora, Shopian. Two cops were maimed in the shootout.
Quoting sources, news agency GNS reported that Pasha was active since five years in Kulgam-Shopian belt and had a history of cases including attacks on police and security forces, abduction of forces personnel, IED attacks and weapon looting against him.
Besides, he was also instrumental in recruitment of youth into holy warrior folds, sources said.
As per sources, the slain faceless myrmidons were part of the group that escaped after a brief shootout in Chaki Samad area of Kulgam on April 9.
The encounter broke out on Monday evening on a specific input regarding movement of faceless myrmidons in a vehicle on Manzgam-Aharbal axis after which a special joint team of Kulgam Police and Army’s 9 & 34 RR was constituted and at about 17:50 hours, a police spokesperson said, adding, "a three-wheeler vehicle (tempo) was spotted near Khur-Batpora moving in suspicious condition and was chased and challenged."
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the faceless myrmidons travelling in the vehicle jumped out and resorted to "indiscriminate firing towards the joint team," the front man said adding the fire was effectively retaliated. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
in the initial firefight, two of the Police personnel got critically maimed and were evacuated amidst the heavy firing to 92 Base Hospital (BB Cant Srinagar) where their condition is stable now.
He said the encounter which started at twilight lasted for the whole night and ended up with the killing of the two holy warriors.
Police said a large cache of arms and ammunition including one AK47 rifle, 3 AK47 Magazine, 36 AK 47 rounds, one Pistol, one Pistol Magazine, five Pistol rounds, one Grenade, one BP Pouch, and weapon Oil Bottle was recovered from the site of the encounter.