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Thursday,
September 18, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Top Jaish militant shot
12 hideouts busted
Srinagar, September 17 Identified as Nasir Mehmood Ahwan, alias Ansaar, the militant was killed in a two-hour encounter at Dana Mazar in Safakdal last night. He is believed to have been number two in the Jaish hierarchy after Sehrai Baba following the killing of Gazi Baba and Rashid Bhai, who were also killed in an encounter in the same locality on August 30. The DGP Mr Gopal Sharma, told mediapersons that the encounter ensued when a police and BSF party on its way to another hideout was fired upon by militants. Ahwan was allegedly involved in over 20 killings of police and security force personnel, the DGP said. Bashir Ahmad Gojri and Manzoor Ahmad Baba had been picked up and on sustained questioning, the police and BSF succeeded in busting 12 hideouts of the Jaish-e-Mohammad while 11 suspected workers of the outfit were also arrested. The seizures included 45 kg of explosives, 20 detonators, six AK rifles, 14 magazines, 710 AK ammunition, one AK silencer, two pistols with five magazines, 152 rounds of ammunition and two pistol silencers, three carbines, two magazines with 45 rounds, seven wireless sets, three UBGLs, eight anti-tank shells, a 61 mm tripod mortar with 14 rounds of ammunition, one 81 mm disposable rocket and other items. Meanwhile, four infiltrators and two security personnel were killed and three injured in separate incidents in the valley since last night. The police said the infiltrators were killed in an encounter with the Army and the police at Janwari Gali near LoC in the Machil sector of Kupwara district today. Two security force personnel died in an encounter with the militants at Akhal, Ganderbal near here last night. Three security force jawans were injured when an IED blast took place at Lam, Tral in Pulwama district this afternoon. The police and security forces apprehended a suspected militant of the Hizbul Mujahideen, Ghulam Nabi Mir, from the Ganderbal area and seized an AK rifle and some ammunition from his possession. A BSF jawan was killed in an encounter with a group of terrorists in a forest of Udhampur district today. The militants killed a man and his son and critically injured his daughter on the suspicion of being informers of the security forces. The militants barged into the house of Ghulam Ahmad at Natnusa in Kupwara and started firing on the inmates, killing Ahmad and his 22-year-old son Bashir Ahmad on the spot and critically injuring his
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No decrease in infiltration, says Army Vice-Chief New Delhi, September 17 The Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Shantonu
Choudhry, said here that not only was the infiltration at the same level as it was during the same period last year but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had also revived all the terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
(PoK). Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony for the 12-member Air Defence Artillery mountain expedition team to Mount
Kailash, General Choudhry said Pakistan had revived the training camps and the Army had photographs of these. A large number of terrorists were getting training at these camps. The General, however, added that there was no spurt in the terrorist activity in Jammu and Kashmir, specially after the killing of Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Gazi Baba. “There have only been certain acts like the blast at the vegetable market in Srinagar and the killing of Kukka
Parray”, he said. The General said the recruitment of Ikhwan cadres in the Territorial Army would be of great utility. The General had yesterday disclosed that the government was soon likely to take a decision on recruiting counter-insurgents to raise new battalions of the Territorial Army. He said firing from across the border was a continuous process. It continued in different patterns, he said, adding that the fencing work along the border was under way. |
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