One terrorist killed in Sopore gunfight
According to reports, the gunfight erupted on Tuesday evening and continued overnight.
According to reports, the gunfight erupted on Tuesday evening and continued overnight.
An encounter broke out after security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the afternoon at Shopian, hours after another encounter in Pulwama.
Kashmiri separatists and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti are mounting pressure on the government for release of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik.
The separatists, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, had called for election boycott and shutdown to highlight the Kashmir issue.
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday again urged the people to boycott the remaining four phases of elections in J-K as the “goal cannot be achieved with non-seriousness”.
The two parties kept three of the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu-Kashmir for “friendly contest” between them.
Two terrorists were killed and five security force personnel lost their lives after an almost 60-hour-long encounter between the forces and the terrorists in Jammu-Kashmir’s Handwara on Sunday.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was martyred and a Major and soldier of the Army injured on Sunday in an encounter in the Turigam village of Kulgam in South Kashmir.
After expressing satisfaction over the safety arrangements for Kashmiri students in Dehradun, a delegation of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) added high drama by arranging buses to take about 200 students to J-K.
The PM, who wore a traditional Dogra saffron turban, also laid the foundation stones of and inaugurated a series of projects worth Rs 35,000 crore for the development of the region.
