...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....
, the police said.
The slain terrorist has been identified as Karman Bhai alias Hanees. He was part of the proscribed Pakistain based terrorist group, 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...
, the ADGP Kashmir said.
Earlier the Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet that an encounter took place at the Karen area of Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir. The encounter began following inputs about the presence of turbans in the area following which both the Indian Army and the Kashmir Police were pressed into service.
In October the police had said that the forces had shot full of holes forty turbans in the Valley. Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh had said that the security forces had shot full of holes 40 turbans of Pakistain origin in various encounters.
Singh said that most of these turbans had been tasked with targeting non-locals and those living in the Union Territory for a long time. There are attempts being made to push turbans from across the border. Such attempts in recent times were foiled in Rajouri and Poonch, the DGP said.
By June this year the security forces had already shot full of holes over 100 turbans in the Valley. The forces have been on high alert in the wake of intelligence warnings about enhanced activity at the terror launch pads across the border.