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Burhan wani's successor was said to be involved in this encounter. ..i hope he too joins his bro with 72!Prem wrote:Ahmed Ali Fayyaz @ahmedalifayyaz 7m7 minutes ago
Tral encounter: Major of RR 42 injured, JK Police cop Manzoor killed. Some militants escape with people's support, 1 or 2 still trapped.
rohitvats wrote:I was following some Kashmiri handles yesterday on this encounter thing. Disparate handles had surprisingly all the details about happening on the ground. Seem to be local from the area of encounter.
It seems the entire Hizbul leadership team for the region was trapped. The handles even gave out the names of the 05 terrorists involved. All local guys it seems. What also emerged was that these militants called up their families in the area over mobile as well. And people gathered in the area to save their own. This gives credence to what Lt. General Hooda (retd), ex-Northern Army commander, said in interview to Shekhar Gupta - that locals do this antics when local militants are involved.
The locals definitely tried to disrupt the operations but it seems security forces did not allow them to get into actual engagement site. The house was raised to the ground - good that IA did not take chances with CQB and lead to unnecessary casualties. Also, what the handles shared was that unlike Shopian, the ops was not let go off at night. The cordon persisted and I think given the high value targets, IA was keen to eliminate them.
and here is an opinion of a worthy member of the committee in the article linked aboveHeaded by Advocate General Jahangir Iqbal Ganai, the committee includes Commissioner/Secretary Revenue Mohammed Asharaf Mir, Commissioner/Secretary Law Abdul Majeed Bhat and Special Secretary Revenue Farooq Ahmed. Considered as experts in Revenue mattes, Advocate H.A.Siddiqui and Advocate N.H.Shah have been included as Special Invitees. The committee was constituted after the intervention of Governor N.N.Vohra.
Incidentally Article 35-A of the Constitution of India was introduced not through the Constitutent Assembly. Article 35A was not added to the Constitution by following the procedure prescribed for amendment of the Constitution of India under Article 368, but by a Presidential order.The member, talking to Kashmir Life anonymously, said that if the children are granted state subject right, that would amount to violation of the Section 6 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, read with Article 35-A of the Constitution of India.
ral: A 33-year-old Jammu and Kashmir policeman, who was soon to be a father, lost his life in his second attempt to flush out militants holed up in a house in Tral after miraculously escaping a volley of fire the first time round.Constable Manzoor Ahmed Naik came forward on two occasions after senior officers decided to bring down the house at Reshipora from which the two militants had continued firing on the police, Army and CRPF.
Undeterred by blazing fire from assault rifles, the braveheart crawled in the pitch dark and placed charges (explosives used for road construction) around the house, a senior officer recalled.The constable came under heavy fire from an AK rifle as he started retreating towards his position but managed to escape, they said."Koi baat nahi (don't worry)," was his nonchalant reply when it was pointed out to him that he would have been killed and that he should not take such risks.The explosives planted by him, though, brought down only half of the house.The situation was tense as people in the nearby locality were protesting and social media was abuzz with rumours to mobilize more people, an officer said.The firing then stopped and following a wait of two hours, Naik again volunteered to plant explosives to bring down what remained of the house, after an Army Major suffered serious gunshot injuries.As he charged towards the house this time, he was hit by a volley of bullets from a militant. Despite his wounds, Naik planted the explosives on remaining part of the house before breathing his last.
Survived by a four-year-old son Aarzoo, a pregnant wife and two unemployed brothers, the resident of Salamabad in Uri (North Kashmir) was the lone bread-earner for his family.He had announced to his senior officer earlier that he was proceeding on leave as his wife was expecting."It's sad that we have lost a boy whose love for his duty and motherland will not go waste. The supreme sacrifice made by the Constable boosts the moral of Jammu and Kashmir police. I salute the brave heart," Director General of Police S P Vaid said after the wreath laying ceremony held for the martyred policeman.Both militants, one of whom was from Pakistan, were killed in the encounter.One of the militants was a Hizbul Mujahideen operative identified as Aaquib Bhat, popularly known as Aaquib Maulvi, who was active in the area for the last three years.The other, Saif-ul-lah alias Osama, was a Pakistani terrorist working with Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Why didn't we just blast the house w/ thermobaric rounds?Prem wrote:http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/c ... rists.html
With bullets in his body, jawan killed in Tral laid a trap for terrorists
ral: A 33-year-old Jammu and Kashmir policeman, who was soon to be a father, lost his life in his second attempt to flush out militants holed up in a house in Tral after miraculously escaping a volley of fire the first time round.Constable Manzoor Ahmed Naik came forward on two occasions after senior officers decided to bring down the house at Reshipora from which the two militants had continued firing on the police, Army and CRPF.
Undeterred by blazing fire from assault rifles, the braveheart crawled in the pitch dark and placed charges (explosives used for road construction) around the house, a senior officer recalled.The constable came under heavy fire from an AK rifle as he started retreating towards his position but managed to escape, they said."Koi baat nahi (don't worry)," was his nonchalant reply when it was pointed out to him that he would have been killed and that he should not take such risks.The explosives planted by him, though, brought down only half of the house.The situation was tense as people in the nearby locality were protesting and social media was abuzz with rumours to mobilize more people, an officer said.The firing then stopped and following a wait of two hours, Naik again volunteered to plant explosives to bring down what remained of the house, after an Army Major suffered serious gunshot injuries.As he charged towards the house this time, he was hit by a volley of bullets from a militant. Despite his wounds, Naik planted the explosives on remaining part of the house before breathing his last.
Survived by a four-year-old son Aarzoo, a pregnant wife and two unemployed brothers, the resident of Salamabad in Uri (North Kashmir) was the lone bread-earner for his family.He had announced to his senior officer earlier that he was proceeding on leave as his wife was expecting."It's sad that we have lost a boy whose love for his duty and motherland will not go waste. The supreme sacrifice made by the Constable boosts the moral of Jammu and Kashmir police. I salute the brave heart," Director General of Police S P Vaid said after the wreath laying ceremony held for the martyred policeman.Both militants, one of whom was from Pakistan, were killed in the encounter.One of the militants was a Hizbul Mujahideen operative identified as Aaquib Bhat, popularly known as Aaquib Maulvi, who was active in the area for the last three years.The other, Saif-ul-lah alias Osama, was a Pakistani terrorist working with Jaish-e-Mohammed.
This is exactly what Gen. rawat was alluding to.Growing public interference in anti-militancy operations forced the security force to call off two anti-militancy operations in south Kashmir in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the LeT heaped praise on the people. A search-and-cordon team of the Army and the police came under heavy stone pelting in Kulgam’s Mohamadpora village on Tuesday, thus delaying the operation.
Separatists on Friday opposed the Pakistan government’s move to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province.
In a joint statement, Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik said, “Kashmir, Ladakh, Jammu, Azad Kashmir [Pakistan-occupied Kashmir] and Gilgit-Baltistan is a single entity.”
The separatists said since the political destiny of Jammu and Kashmir was yet to be decided any proposal to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as the fifth State of Pakistan was “unacceptable.” Referring to Pakistan as “a prime party to the Kashmir issue”, the separatists said such a step may hamper the disputed status of Kashmir. “Both India and Pakistan have no authority or right to alter the geographical status of the State,” they added.
Recently, a committee, headed by Pakistan’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, had proposed giving the status of a province to Gilgit-Baltistan.
The data show a steady increase in the number of youths taking up arms in the Valley from 2014.
In 2010, 54 youths joined militancy while in 2011 the number came down to 23. It further dipped to 21 in 2012 and 16 in 2013, the reply said.
In 2014, the number shot up to 53 and in 2015 it reached 66 before touching the highest mark in six years (88) in 2016, the data said.
“The State of Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by terrorism sponsored and supported from across the border. The levels of terrorist violence in the hinterland of Jammu and Kashmir are linked to infiltration from across the border,” Mr. Ahir said. The data on infiltration shows that about 121 terrorists had sneaked into the country in 2012, the highest in six years, followed by 119 in 2016.
“The counter terrorism efforts saw the best figures in 2010, when 81 per cent of infiltration attempts were thwarted by security forces, with only 95 terrorists entering the country as against 489 attempts,” the data said.
In 2011, 52 terrorists had crossed over against 247 infiltration attempts, while in 2013, 97 ultras managed to sneak in against 277 attempts, it said. In 2014, 222 terrorists tried to enter the country, but only 65 could do it and in 2015, 121 ultras made such attempts but only 33 of them were successful, the data said.
Salute to the true son of the nation.Prem wrote:http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/c ... rists.html
With bullets in his body, jawan killed in Tral laid a trap for terrorists
ral: A 33-year-old Jammu and Kashmir policeman, who was soon to be a father, lost his life in his second attempt to flush out militants holed up in a house in Tral after miraculously escaping a volley of fire the first time round.Constable Manzoor Ahmed Naik came forward on two occasions after senior officers decided to bring down the house at Reshipora from which the two militants had continued firing on the police, Army and CRPF.
Undeterred by blazing fire from assault rifles, the braveheart crawled in the pitch dark and placed charges (explosives used for road construction) around the house, a senior officer recalled.The constable came under heavy fire from an AK rifle as he started retreating towards his position but managed to escape, they said."Koi baat nahi (don't worry)," was his nonchalant reply when it was pointed out to him that he would have been killed and that he should not take such risks.The explosives planted by him, though, brought down only half of the house.The situation was tense as people in the nearby locality were protesting and social media was abuzz with rumours to mobilize more people, an officer said.The firing then stopped and following a wait of two hours, Naik again volunteered to plant explosives to bring down what remained of the house, after an Army Major suffered serious gunshot injuries.As he charged towards the house this time, he was hit by a volley of bullets from a militant. Despite his wounds, Naik planted the explosives on remaining part of the house before breathing his last.
Survived by a four-year-old son Aarzoo, a pregnant wife and two unemployed brothers, the resident of Salamabad in Uri (North Kashmir) was the lone bread-earner for his family.He had announced to his senior officer earlier that he was proceeding on leave as his wife was expecting."It's sad that we have lost a boy whose love for his duty and motherland will not go waste. The supreme sacrifice made by the Constable boosts the moral of Jammu and Kashmir police. I salute the brave heart," Director General of Police S P Vaid said after the wreath laying ceremony held for the martyred policeman.Both militants, one of whom was from Pakistan, were killed in the encounter.One of the militants was a Hizbul Mujahideen operative identified as Aaquib Bhat, popularly known as Aaquib Maulvi, who was active in the area for the last three years.The other, Saif-ul-lah alias Osama, was a Pakistani terrorist working with Jaish-e-Mohammed.
A motion was passed in the British Parliament condemning Islamabad's announcement declaring Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth frontier, saying the region is a legal and constitutional part of Jammu and Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.The motion which was tabled on 23 March and sponsored by Conservative Party leader Bob Blackman, stated that Pakistan by making such an announcement is implying its attempt to annex the already disputed area."Gilgit-Baltistan is a legal and constitutional part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, which is illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, and where people are denied their fundamental rights including the right of freedom of expression," the motion read.It was further noted that the attempts to change the demography of the region was in violation of State Subject Ordinance and the 'forced and illegal construction' of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) further aggravated and interfered with the disputed territory.With Pakistan planning to declare Gilgit-Baltistan region as its fifth province, the Baloch leaders have warned Islamabad of serious repercussions stating that this development will only lead to massive resistance by the people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).The Gilgit-Baltistan area is Pakistan's northernmost administrative territory that borders the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Just to refresh our memories on the double dealing of our ex-colonial masters. These brits would beat AK in changing colorssanjayc wrote:I think Brits are pissed off about Pakistan's dealings with China in Kashmir regarding the economic corridor and China's tightening grip over the area. The Whites are interested in Kashmir issue as long as it serves their interests in undermining India and keeping the pot boiling. If China steps in their shoes, they will hit back at Pakistan.
Three civilians were killed in security forces' action against protesters near an encounter site in Budgam district in Kashmir during an anti-militancy operation which ended with the killing of the lone militant.
"One militant has been killed and a weapon has been recovered from the scene of the encounter," an army official said.
The encounter has ended, a police official said adding that one para trooper also sustained injuries.
Three civilians - all young men in their twenties - were killed while 18 others were injured in security forces' action against a large number of protesters who pelted stones on the law enforcing personnel allegedly in a vain bid to help the holed up militant escape.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Durbugh area of Chadoora in the early hours today following information about the presence of militants in the area, the police official said.
He said the search operation turned into a gunbattle after the militant opened firing on security forces.
The slain civilians have been identified as Zahid Dar, Saqib Ahmad and Ishfaq Ahmad Wani.
All of them had firearm injuries, the official said.
Clashes between protesters and security forces were going on till reports last came in, he added.
The trend of civilians assembling near encounter sites and engaging security forces in clashes emerged last year.
It has continued even after Army Chief Bipin Rawat warned the youth against interfering in anti-militancy operations and the state administration imposing Section 144 within three kilometre radius of the encounter site.
Good job, but there is limit to how far it can be stretched. Perhaps joint teams where army hunts for terrorist pigs and police these straightens these local pigs. Killing will make these martyrs and has a chance of things spiralling out of control. Would be good to have a Rashtriya Rifles kind ofjamwal wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 874376.cms
Budgam encounter ends after militant killed, 3 civilians also lose lifeThree civilians were killed in security forces' action against protesters near an encounter site in Budgam district in Kashmir during an anti-militancy operation which ended with the killing of the lone militant.
"One militant has been killed and a weapon has been recovered from the scene of the encounter," an army official said.
The encounter has ended, a police official said adding that one para trooper also sustained injuries.
Three civilians - all young men in their twenties - were killed while 18 others were injured in security forces' action against a large number of protesters who pelted stones on the law enforcing personnel allegedly in a vain bid to help the holed up militant escape.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Durbugh area of Chadoora in the early hours today following information about the presence of militants in the area, the police official said.
He said the search operation turned into a gunbattle after the militant opened firing on security forces.
The slain civilians have been identified as Zahid Dar, Saqib Ahmad and Ishfaq Ahmad Wani.
All of them had firearm injuries, the official said.
Clashes between protesters and security forces were going on till reports last came in, he added.
The trend of civilians assembling near encounter sites and engaging security forces in clashes emerged last year.
It has continued even after Army Chief Bipin Rawat warned the youth against interfering in anti-militancy operations and the state administration imposing Section 144 within three kilometre radius of the encounter site.
It's simple. The moment they physically get in the way of security forces in the line of action or throw stones or other weapons while an operation is going on, they are active combatants and not civilians anymore. This isn't a hippie anti-war protest or peace march and they don't need to be treated with kid gloves - in fact the situation got to this point because they were allowed to do stuff like that with impunity. Once they know that the forces have clearance to hit back and will do so, much of this bravado will vanish. No army in the world will put up with crap like this while they are under active fire with terrorists, and those killed are unlikely to get any sympathy from anyone who matters (the usual suspects like pakis and aakar patel of course will whine).ranjan.rao wrote:Good job, but there is limit to how far it can be stretched. Perhaps joint teams where army hunts for terrorist pigs and police these straightens these local pigs. Killing will make these martyrs and has a chance of things spiralling out of control. Would be good to have a Rashtriya Rifles kind ofjamwal wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 874376.cms
Budgam encounter ends after militant killed, 3 civilians also lose life
anti terror team operating with police to handle these local "civilian" jihadis. That hounds these civilians and their families. Afterall, these people should be more vulnerable than the terrorists
The oleoresin based shells are simple to operate and user-friendly to control an unruly mob. The body of the grenades is made of plastic which melts when the grenade bursts, making throwing it back difficult.
Immediately after exploding, it emits gas which causes breathing difficulty and irritation in eyes.