Category: Jammu and Kashmir

One CRPF jawan was killed and two others injured as militants opened fire on a CRPF patrol near Patha Chowk area on the outskirts of Srinagar on Saturday afternoon. Police officials said the vehicle was outside Delhi Public School (DPS), Srinagar, as part of road opening party when militants emerged on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and opened fire at it […]

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik was arrested by police here on Saturday. A spokesman of the JKLF said Malik was arrested from his residence in Maisuma area. Malik along with Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has been spearheading the separatist resistance in the Kashmir Valley for over one year.

Three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were killed in a night long encounter in Pulwama. Their charred bodies were recovered on Thursday morning. Police sources said all three trapped militants, who engaged the security forces in a gunfight on Wednesday night, were killed in a house. The house of a civilian was completely damaged in the encounter as it caught fire. The […]

One soldier was killed and five others were injured when militants opened fire on an Army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu highway on Saturday morning. Preliminary reports suggest that the attack place at Hillar, Qazigund, in South Kashmir. The area is over 70 km south of Srinagar. A police official said a search operation was launched in the area to nab […]

Two militants were killed in an anti-militancy operation in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Thursday. A Srinagar-based police spokesman said that the operation was launched on Wednesday night. “In the quick operation, the police zeroed in on the two militants in Sopore and eliminated them,” said the spokesman. The operation was carried out jointly by the Army’s 22 Rashtriya Rifles (RR), CRPF’s […]

Pakistani troops on Friday violated the ceasefire by firing mortars along the International Border in Jammu district, leaving a BSF jawan injured. The BSF troops posted along the border retaliated. This is second ceasefire violation along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir in as many days. “Pakistani Rangers fired few bullets warning troops working ahead of the fence in […]