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”.
More than 1300 people, including some tourists from West Bengal, stranded due to heavy snowfall at the Jawahar Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway were on Sunday rescued by the J-K Traffic Police and CRPF.
More than 125 civilians and truck drivers stranded in heavy snow on the Moughal Road in the Rajouri district of Jammu were on Saturday rescued by men of Indian Army’s 16 battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles.
Police said Bakarwal died on the spot, while his daughter and uncle were injured and shifted to a hospital.
Top Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik were taken into custody as they defied restrictions and tried to march towards Lal Chowk for which a call had been given by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
The Met department has warned of heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorm at isolated places over coastal Odisha starting 9 October.
