The camp is located in Gagran village at Shopian in Pulwama district.
"He was one of the oldest militant and wanted for several terror-related crimes," police told PTI.
Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an officer, were killed in a militant attack in Sangam area of Anantnag district in Jammu & Kashmir.
Police and security forces have rushed to the spot.
The gun battle broke out at Imamsahib in Shopian, around 60 km from Srinagar, when troops engaged in combing operation were fired upon, the sources said.
Two militants of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and a soldier were killed and another soldier injured in a 24-hour-long fierce gun battle in south Kashmir, official sources said on Friday.\n\n
Curfew was lifted in most parts of Kashmir from Monday and it was completely withdrawn two days ago.
Intense clashes had rocked Kashmir Valley in 2016 following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July that year, resulting in the death of over 85 people.
Nadda asked party workers to go to people and 'expose' the Congress's 'slander campaign' against the government.
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The CM apprised the home minister about the steps taken to maintain peace in the Kashmir Valley
Ahead of the Parliament session, beginning Monday, the government is apparently aiming to build a consensus to deal with its biggest neighbour as well on Kashmir issue.
With three sarpanchs killed in December, many panchayat members are running scared and quitting their posts. Pervez Majeed reports.
'India has both the wherewithal and the will to fight the enemy, but is living in a make believe world of its own since it is yet to accept that it is indeed at war,' says military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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The idea of the road's revival was floated in 1979 by then chief minister Sheikh Abdullah.
Security personnel in Shopian town were the target, but those who got hurt were civilians.
5 terrorists to LeT and Hizbul were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of J&K.
Curfew continued in parts of Srinagar on Saturday in view of the separatists' call for occupying Lal Chowk and Airport Road here while curfew-like restrictions remained in force in rest of Kashmir even as normal life remained paralysed for the 57th day.
The poll process for the second tier of the Panchayati Raj system will be completed by November 5, he said.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
Hundreds others were wounded many of whom received bullet and pellet injuries and are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
The protest was organised by All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC), whose delegation led by its president Ravinder Raina later submitted a memorandum to the Lt Governor G C Murmu, highlighting various demands with special thrust for return and rehabilitation in their homeland.
In the stone-pelting, SSP Doda, one SHO, one sub-inspector and two other police personnel were injured.
The formal notification of handing over the case to the NIA is expected to be issued by the ministry soon, an official privy to the development said.
The necessary formalities were being completed in Jammu as well as in the national capital before the probe agency, which has been credited with breaking the nexus between stone-pelters and separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, takes over the case, officials said.
In a major blow to the commander of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Burhan Wani's close aide, Tariq Pandita, surrendered before security forces in south Kashmir on Saturday.
Curfew was on Sunday lifted from all parts of Kashmir but normal life in the Valley remained affected due to the strike call given by hardline Hurriyat Conference to protest against the firing incident in Ramban district that left four persons dead.
The heightened militancy this year in Pulwama is receiving ground support with the local people posing maximum resistance to the forces.
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The fate of 961 candidates, including Union ministers Giriraj Singh, Subhash Bhamre, S S Ahluwalia and Babul Supriyo of the BJP and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of the Congress, will be decided by about 12.79 core voters in the fourth phase.
No major clash was reported on Thursday from anywhere in Kashmir.
Kashmir was indeed in need of a messiah that summer; 70 per cent of its population aged below 31 were up in arms against the Indian State. Every nook and corner of the land brought forth stories of youngsters with crushed bodies and an unfaltering spirit.
'If I see anyone taking the wrong path, I will stop him or her.'
Normal life has been paralysed due to curfew-like restrictions and separatists-sponsored strike since Saturday.
Security forces have been deployed in strength in sensitive and vulnerable areas to maintain law and order.
Basit Mukhtar was injured by a tear gas shell in clashes on September 5.
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