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...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 Anantnag district, officials said as the operation to flush out the ultras entered the third day on Friday.
The turbans killed four security personnel on Wednesday.
''The forces fired mortar shells on the terrain where they believe the turbans are hiding, based on drone surveillance,'' the officials said.
The security forces have maintained a tight cordon in the area, they added.
Colonel Manpreet Singh, commanding officer of the 19 Rashtriya Rifles unit of the Army, Major Ashish Dhonchak, Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Bhat and a soldier were killed in an encounter with the turbans at Gadole in the Kokernag area of the south Kashmir district on Wednesday morning.
Anantnag Encounter: Soldier Loses Life, Toll Climbs To 4
[OneIndia] A fourth soldier departed this vale of tears on Friday, bringing the corpse count to four in an ongoing encounter in Anantnag district, Jammu and 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....
. The area is cordoned off, and a search operation is underway, according to an official statement.
The encounter followed a shootout that erupted between security forces and concealed bully boyz in the Kokernag area of Anantnag on Wednesday. In this
The four officials who tragically bit the dust are Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish Dhonchack, DSP Humayun Bhat, and the fourth soldier whose identity has not been disclosed.
Colonel Manpreet Singh and Major Ashish Dhonchack were laid to rest in their hometown of Panipat on Friday morning. DSP Humayun Bhat was given his final farewell on Thursday at his residence in Budgam. After the encounter, the Indian Army airlifted their remains to Srinagar on Thursday, and a tribute was paid to their mortal remains on Thursday evening.
Officials have disclosed that the army was leading the operation based on specific intelligence inputs, searching for bully boyz in a hideout when the firefight erupted. The bully boyz initiated gunfire, resulting in the immediate death of Colonel Manpreet Singh and injuries to two other officials who later gave up the ghost in a Srinagar hospital.
The bully boyz are believed to be associated with "The Resistance® Front," a proxy group of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
. Security forces suspect that two to three bully boyz are still hiding in the area. To facilitate surveillance and aid in the search operation, Heron drones and quadcopters have been deployed in the region, as reported by officials.
In response to the killing of four security personnel, anti-Pakistain protests erupted on Thursday in various parts of Jammu city. Organizations such as Panun Kashmir and the Eik Sanatam Bharat Dal (ESBD) paid homage to the fallen personnel and called for a comprehensive operation against the terrorist network in Jammu and Kashmir.