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Six ultras killed in encounter Srinagar, July 15 Four unidentified militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle with a joint search party of 41 Rashtriya rifles and the police at Gurdali village in the Kalaroos area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir this morning, the sources said. They said the encounter took place when the security forces raided the village to flush out hiding militants. The security forces killed a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, Sartaj Ahmad Lone, during search operations at Zainapora village in Shopian area of Pulwama district in south Kashmir. The sources said militants shot at and critically wounded an Ikhwan activist, Ghulam Hassan Itoo, a resident of Dooru, near the Deputy Police Commissioner’s office in Anantnag this afternoon. A shopkeeper, Mohammad Subhan, was also injured when his colleagues fired in retaliation. However, the militants managed to escape after the shooting. The sources said militants fired upon a CRPF patrol at Shopian town in Pulwama district this morning and in the ensuing exchange of fire, a civilian, identified as Feroz Ahmad Wani, was injured. Meanwhile, a large number of villagers, including women and children took to streets at D.K. Marg village in protest against the alleged highhandedness of the security forces. JAMMU: A militant was shot dead by the security forces in a gunbattle in the Chhunga area of Mendhar sector in Poonch district on Tuesday morning.
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IAF official
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Pak shelling Srinagar, July 15 Sergeant Suresh died instantly and his wife, son and driver Throng Dorjay were injured when a shell hit their taxi at Chanigund on the periphery of Kargil town last night, they said. Sources said the official was on a tour to the frontier region when he was caught in the shelling witnessed in the area since early yesterday. The sources said the taxi was damaged extensively in the shelling and the condition of the injured was stated to be serious. Troops guarding the border also fired in retaliation and the shelling from both sides was on for the second successive day today, the sources said, adding there was no immediate report of any casualty on the Pakistani side. However, life in Kargil town was normal as shopkeepers opened their shops as usual. Schools were open and other semi-government offices functioned normally. —
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CBI takes Yasin Malik to
Delhi Jammu, July 15 It is learnt that his bail was cancelled by a Tis-Hazari Court at Delhi as a result of which he was taken into custody. The POTA court here earlier had issued non-bailable warrants against Mr Malik in a case pertaining to the seizure of one lakh US dollars from two persons near Kud in the Udhampur district. During interrogation these boys told the police that they had received the money from Altaf Qadri, an executive committee member of the Hurriyat, at Kathmandu for being delivered to Malik at Srinagar. |
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Muslim on Amarnath yatra for thanksgiving Baltal (Jammu), July 15 Dressed in a dhoti and chanting “Jai bhole nath, jai Shiv Shankar”, the middle class Muslim businessman, Ahmed and his wife Abida were part of first batch of piligrims to pay obeisance at the holy ice lingam of Lord Shiva. Hailing from Bongaigaon district in the Northeast, long bearded Ahmed’s wish to be cured of paralysis was fulfilled by the grace of Lord Shiva after 14 long years of medical treatment costing around Rs 7 to 8 lakh. “I am happy that Lord Shiva had cured my husband after we rubbed on his forehead ash from the Amarnath cave brought by a family friend last year”, Ahmed’s wife Abida told PTI. “Ahmed was normal after this exercise, and his two legs and right arm, which had been paralysed since 1988, started working well”, she said adding “It was the miracle of ‘Bhole Baba’ for us as well as for doctors, who had lost all hope of a cure for him.” As per the prayer, the couple say they would visit Amarnath every year. “We had prayed to God that if Ahmed was fully cured from paralysis, we would visit Amarnath every year and this is our first time”, Abida said. Like Ahmed and Abida a Punjabi NRI couple Satinder Kaur and Gurpreet Singh who had got married 16 years ago and were settled in California had come to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva for their three-month-old baby, who they believe is a “gift from Lord Shiva”. “We had visited Amarnath seeking a child. Now we have a baby boy born to us after 16 years due to the blessing of Amarnath baba”, they said.Hundreds of Muslims, Sikhs, Christians are part of this Hindu pilgrimage year after year in pursuit of fulfilment of their wishes, he added. —
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3,699 more leave for pilgrimage Jammu, July 15 The devotees comprising 2713 men, 651 women, 77 children and 258 sadhus left in a fleet of 196 vehicles from MAM stadium around 0700 hours, officials said here. So far 53,234 pilgrims have undertaken the pilgrimage, officials said, adding that of them 37,158 had undertaken the route of cave shrine via Pahalgam and the remaining 16,076 had followed Baltal route. As many as 30,853 devotees have already paid obeisance at the cave shrine and were on their way to return to their respective destinations in the country, they said. Meanwhile, Inspector General of CRPF, M.S. Ruhil reviewed the security arrangements at MAM stadium here yesterday. He said the CRPF personnel and those belonging to other security agencies had been given instructions to take all steps for the safety of pilgrims at all places. —
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Governor visits Charar-e Sharief, inspects works Srinagar, July 15 Besides inspecting the progress of the Rs 20 lakh modernisation programme yesterday, the Governor also inspected the plan for the construction of an auditorium and a shopping complex in the town during the visit. The Governor expressed satisfaction at the completion of the work on two civic amenities blocks near the shrine in a record time. —
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