J&k Militants

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Paramilitary soldiers patrol a market in Srinagar, in Jammu Kashmir, Tuesday, Nov 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

4 killed including two ultras as terror hideout busted in Srinagar area

The police announced it had set up a Special Investigation Team to probe the modus operandi in the running of the hi-tech hideout

17 Nov 2021 1:38 AM

Soldiers walk towards their vehicle after returning from a gun battle with militants in Srinagar. PTI photo

Kashmir: Anger and anguish as slain militants' bodies are denied to their parents

In the past also, the funeral of local as well as foreign militants would attract thousands of mourners in the Valley

30 Jun 2020 3:37 PM

Security personnel take position behind a vehicle during an encounter with militants at Zoonimar area of Srinagar. PTI photo

J&K house owner asked militants to surrender before encounter

When they ignored the police appeal, the owner of the house was asked to make one last attempt to persuade the militants to surrender

22 Jun 2020 12:51 PM

Security personnel patrol the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

J&K admits state not ‘normal’, says militants to blame

The govt alleged for the past over seven decades, the people of J&K had been misled and made victim of a ‘vicious campaign and motivated propaganda’.

12 Oct 2019 3:21 AM

J&K governor Satya Pal Malik (Photo: PTI)

J&K gov asks militants to spare policemen, kill corrupt politicians

The governor was, however, quick to advise the militants to shun violence and seek resolution of issues through dialogue.

22 Jul 2019 5:04 AM

Last month, in a major success, the security forces had killed the chief of Al Qaeda’s Kashmir unit, Zakir Musa. (Photo: PTI)

Pakistan pushes ‘old hands’ in terror to stir up J&K

Many top Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were also killed after the suicide attack on the CRPF in Pulwama.

28 Jun 2019 6:24 AM

The security forces have killed, at least, one suspected militant in a gunfight raging in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Pulwama district since Thursday afternoon. (Representational Image)

Territorial Army jawan killed by gunmen in J&K

Soon after the security forces moved in the village, mobile internet services were suspended in entire Kulgam district “as a precautionary measure.”

07 Jun 2019 2:02 AM

Another PDP worker killed in J&K, Mufti slams murder

Killing of PDP workers and other civilians condemnable: Tarigami

21 May 2019 6:34 AM

According to the police, both the militants were killed by the security forces and that from the “incriminating material” recovered at the site of the encounter, “it is understood that the two killed terrorists were Pakistani nationals, identified as Ali and Hubaib”. (Representational Image)

6 militants, minor held hostage killed in separate J&K firefights

They alleged that Mir was “brutally killed by two Pakistani terrorists” who were also killed in the final assault of the security forces.

23 Mar 2019 1:04 AM

The police said that Muhammad Yaseen Bhat, a soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry unit was on leave at home in Qazipora village of Budgam’s Chadoora area when kidnapped by masked gunmen.

Militants abduct Kashmiri Armyman

The police with other security forces has launched a massive operation to secure his release.

09 Mar 2019 6:23 AM

The encounter had begun when security forces launched a search operation in Babagund area in north Kashmir, following information about presence of militants there. (Representational Image | PTI)

J&K: Five security personnel, two militants killed

Two militants were killed by security forces in the encounter which began on Friday morning, the police spokesman said here.

04 Mar 2019 4:03 AM

The security forces fired teargas canisters and pellet shotguns to quell the stone-pelting mobs at three places, leaving about a dozen persons injured, reports said. (Representational Image | PTI)

3 militants killed in J&K gunfight

A report said that he succumbed to his injuries in the hospital later during the day.

04 Jan 2019 1:34 AM

Security personnel pass through a colony after an operation in Srinagar

J&K: 435 deaths in violence make 2018 bloodiest year of decade

Those killed include 253 militants, 97 securitymen and 84 civilians; 500 died in militancy-related violence in 2008.

17 Dec 2018 3:01 AM

51 militants were killed between June 25 and Sept. 14 and another 85 terrorists were gunned down between Sept. 15 and Dec. 5 (Representational | PTI)

240 militants still active in Kashmir Valley

232 militants have been killed in Kashmir Valley so far this year.

09 Dec 2018 5:25 AM

Slain J&K cop shaved beard to dodge militants, visit parents

Mir shaved off his beard and decided to use his personal vehicle to go to his native village, the officer said.

29 Oct 2018 2:13 AM

Kashmiri villagers watch the funeral procession of top rebel commander Gulzar Ahm-ed Paddroo in Aridgeen, about 75 kilometers south of Srinagar, on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Security forces eliminate 5 militants in J&K’s Kulgam

The slain men, belonged to proscribed Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfits, as per security forces’ officials.

16 Sep 2018 12:58 AM

Deferred visuals: A total of five militants were believed to be engaged in the encounter. (Photo: Twitter | @ANI)

J&K: 5 terrorists gunned down by security forces in Kulgam encounter

Train services have been suspended in the valley due to apprehensions of law and order problems.

15 Sep 2018 8:35 AM

The end to the crisis came in reciprocation to the police releasing militants’ arrested relatives. (Representational Image/ Photo: PTI)

3 J&K policemen and 8 relatives released unharmed by militants

Makroo, Zubair Ahmad Bhat, Ghulam Mohammad Dar, Arif Hussain Shanker, Asif Rafiq, Nasir Ahmad and Yasir Arfat Bhat.

01 Sep 2018 2:42 AM

In neighbouring Awanti-pora area, four civilians were injured, one of them critically, in a grenade attack. (Representational image)

Army jawan, two civilians killed in militant violence in Kashmir

The deceased soldier has been identified as Rifleman Ram Babu Shahi (24). “He sustained a bullet injury during the gun battle.

18 Aug 2018 5:03 AM

Constable Mohammad Saleem Shah, who was on leave, was abducted by militants from his residence in Mutalhama area of Kulgam in south Kashmir on Friday. (Photo: PTI/Representational image)

Army avenges killing of constable Mohammad Saleem

The body bore severe torture marks indicating that he was “brutally tortured to death” by the militants, a police spokesman said.

23 Jul 2018 6:13 AM

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