Posing as civilians under a new intelligence-based operation to target militant leaders, the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Junaid and gunned down another militant from the Pakistan-based outfit and three from Hizbul Mujahideen. Junaid was trapped in a bus by police personnel who posed as passengers when the militant undertook a journey to travel to his area of operation.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for traffic for the third day on Friday due to fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 500 Kashmir-bound passengers stranded.
It is time India acted like Lincoln and not like 'men of straw' who succumbed to pressure in 1947. It is time that India makes it clear that secession is not an option and that Indian unity is non-negotiable.
The shooting inside the camp triggered panic and consternation as senior officers and colleagues rushed to overpower the berserk trooper.
Two children were killed when a hand grenade exploded in Gawari village in the hilly Doda district at Jammu on Friday. The children had found the grenade by the riverside and were playing with it when the grenade exploded, said the police. The victims have been identified as Kamran (6) and Mohammad Afzal (12). The police suspect that the grenade may have been the leftover ammunition of the recent encounter between militants and security forces in the village.
Among the seizures made from the ultras included 2 kg RDX, a detonator and some hand grenades, Joint Commissioner of Police, Karnal Singh told PTI.
This is the first ever incident of fratricide in the Kashmir police department.
A group of terrorists struck the house of PDP Kishtwar district president and escaped with the service rifle of his PSO early Friday.
Two hardcore Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants, including a foreigner, were killed and two special police officers wounded in a fierce gunbattle at Gundoh in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said in Jammu.
Two Lashker-e-Toiba militants were killed in a gunbattle in Doda district, official sources said on Sunday. On a tip off, army troops and police launched a search operation in Bikhrain area of the district on Saturday evening. During the operation, a gunbattle took place between the militants and troops in which both the ultras were killed. The slain militants have been identified as Altaf Hussain and Irshad Ahmed.
The recoveries included four under barrel grenade launchers, two remote control IED boxes and some ammunition.
Hamid Bagwan, a resident of Doda, was arrested during a vehicle search.
The LeT's self-styled 'divisional commander' Ahmed Atto, alias Abu Yasir, and his wife Shabrina Bano, also a terrorist, were killed at Khandepura, near Gundna in Doda district on Wednesday afternoon
Thirty five passengers, including six women were killed and seven critically injured when a bus fell into the Chenab river in Kishtwar district on Thursday. The bus, which was on its way from Jammu to Kishtwar, skidded off the road and fell into the river at Kandni-Phagumarh area at around 12.30 pm, said Himant Lohia, the Deputy Inspector general of police, Doda-Ramban-Kishtwar range.
Nine people were killed and 28 injured when a passenger bus fell 350 feet into the Chenab river near Ramban on the Jammu Srinagar national highway on Sunday evening. Sources said that the accident took place when the driver of the bus lost control while maneuvering a curve. A massive rescue and relief operation was launched immediately. The condition of ten of the injured victims is serious, said the police.
BJP has warned the government not to accept unreasonable demands of Mufti as it would endanger the security of the country.
The Jammu-Doda and Rajouri-Poonch routes were also closed.
There was heavy snowfall at Jawahar Tunnel, health resort Patnitop, upper reaches of Doda district and Pir Panchal ranges.
Hours after the verdict was announced, Azad visited the dam site in the mountainous Doda district and met the engineers and workers who were jubilant at the verdict by the World Bank appointed arbitrator Prof Raymond Lafitte.
Abu Umar, who coordinates the militant outfit's operations in the country, was killed during a search operation by police and Rashtriya Rifles personnel, which took place in Banderwah area of the district early on Wednesday morning.
Head Constable Gaviri Ram of 138 battalion was found lying in a pool of blood inside his barrack in the BSF camp Khanetar top area of Poonch district, officials said.
Here's the chronological list of all major terror attacks on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two decades.
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Pakistani troops on Monday violated the ceasefire for the second time in four days by firing with small arms and automatic weapons on Indian posts along the LoC in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The UPA government has no political will and courage to avert the impending danger of migration of Hindus from Jammu and Kashmir," Naidu said.
When the forces confronted him and asked him to surrender, Latif tried to run away towards Pakistan but was arrested, they added.
The Friday evening attack comes hours after five Hindu villagers were murdered and three critically wounded in the border district of Rajouri.
"Army is being withdrawn to save a government (in Jammu and Kashmir). But no such steps should be taken, which could push the country into a crisis," the BJP chief warned.
He said the state had suffered heavily on all fronts due to militancy.
The 3 LeT militants were killed in the operation late Wednesday night.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani Wednesday broke his Bharat Suraksha Yatra and rushed to Mumbai.
Troops recovered the explosives along with detonators buried in a field near the temple during a sanitisation operation.
Delhi is likely to record its second-coldest December since 1901 as temperatures are predicted to drop further.
Militants also shot at and seriously injured 28-year-old Tahira in her house at Sumblar-Bandipora in Baramulla district on Friday night, the spokesman said.
Three militants trying to infiltrate into India and a special police officer were killed in separate encounters with security forces in Jammu region, defence sources said on Sunday.
Fencing the border has forced militants to either use the Samjhauta Exp or enter through Nepal.
A Special Task Force of police seized the explosives and detonators from a hideout near a school in Ramban area early Saturday morning.
A Hizbul Mujahideen area commander has been killed while another commander have been arrested along with three other persons in Udhampur and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night.
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