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6 militants killed in encounters Another Sunjawan waiting
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6 militants killed in encounters Srinagar, June 30 The police said four militants, two each belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad and the Hizbul Mujahideen, were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Abhama Kellar in Pulwama district yesterday. A JCO was also injured. Four AK rifles, six magazines, 140 rounds, two pistols, two pistol rounds and two wireless sets were recovered from the site of the encounter. Those killed have been identified as Mohammad Fareed and Assadullah Bhat of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Abdul Razaq Mir and Mohammad Ashraf Ahangar of the Hizbul. A BSF spokesman said troops acting on a tip-off raided a hideout at the village yesterday. Two militants and a civilian were killed in an exchange of fire between the militants and the security forces at the Kensoli forests in the Mahore area of Udhampur district yesterday. Two AK rifles, six magazines, 10 kg of explosives, 10 electric detonators, 20 meters of cordex, four timer devices and a wireless set were recovered from the site of the encounter. The militants shot dead a Mastura Bano outside her house at Swara Challi village in the Gandoh area of Doda district last night. Ghulam Mohammad Lone and Abdul Salam Lone were killed by the militants in the Mandi area of Poonch district last night. Another persons sustained injuries, the police said. JAMMU: Pakistani terrorists on Monday killed Ghulam Mohammad, a panch of Geri-Khawaja village in Poonch district and critically wounded his brother Habib Lone. Another person, Abdul Salam was also slaughtered by the terrorists at the same village. Reports said the terrorists kidnapped three persons and killed two of them. The third escaped with serious injuries. The police last night arrested four hard-core terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Jehad while they were travelling in a truck through the Lakhanpur checkpost on the Punjab border. A sum of Rs 8.5 lakh was recovered from them besides some arms and ammunition. The Army troops and the police have launched a massive search and identification operation in the Raika-Bhatandi-Sonjiwan forest belt in south Jammu to smash militant hideouts after the terrorist attack on the Sonjiwan military station on Saturday in which 12 soldiers were killed, sources have said. Identification of each person is being ascertained.
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Another Sunjawan waiting to happen Jammu, June 30 Terrorists have, earlier, made the nearby Kaluchak cantonment and the Rajiv Nagar colony their targets. More than 30 members of Army families and some passengers of a Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus were massacred by terrorists in Kaluchak and over 28 persons were shot in Rajiv Nagar near military station at Sunjawan. In spite of these incidents, the authorities have failed to fortify the sensitive installations of the Army, so far. The low barbed-wire fence around the military station is in a bad shape and no longer capable of stopping anyone from entering the area. The wild grass provided the two terrorists with the desired
camouflage and they could keep the Army personnel engaged in an exchange of fire for over four hours. The Army could kill them only by shelling the area. A visit to several other such military installations showed these to be easy to breach. Hardly any military station has a protection wall around it. The terrorists have targeted not only the Army installations, but also the BSF and CRPF camps in the state. An attempt was recently made to blow up the fuel depot of the Indian Oil near the railway station here, but the remote controlled device kept in a tanker burst just before entering the depot. This incident, too, took place near the Sunjawan military station. Suicide squads of the terrorists had recently done much damage to a locality near a camp of the CRPF near Bakshi Stadium and also a police installation at Srinagar. The security wing of the state police has a lot to learn from these incidents, as, at times, its personnel did not discharge their duties well. Taxi drivers are allowed to enter the airport here without any hassle and park their vehicles inside, but genuine passengers are frisked and not allowed to take their vehicles even upto the entrance to the heavily guarded departure lounge. It is time for the government to review the
deployment of police personnel for the security of persons with least threat to their lives. Crores of rupees are being wasted on getting bullet proof vehicles for such persons whose list is stretching by each day. Meanwhile, the Jammu Mukti Morch (JMM) has accused the former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah, of having allowed the Bhatindi colony to come up illegally during his regime by cutting a forest area near the military camp. The JMM alleged that many suspected criminals had settled in the colony and it had become a hub of terrorist activities. Col V.P. Sharma
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NC office-bearers disrupt party meeting Srinagar, June 30 Trouble started when NC general secretary Sheikh Nazir Ahmad directed party workers to throw out a district president of the party from the meeting for interrupting him and expressing his inability to organise a rally on the occasion of Martyrs’ day on July 13. Nazir, who was in the chair, had earlier directed the party’s district and block presidents and secretaries to muster public support and arrange a massive turnout at July 13 rally from all over the valley. Haji Mohammad Sultan, NC district president of Kupwara, rebuffed Sheikh saying when the party was in power no such rally was organised on Martyrs Day. “We should have organised such rallies when the party was in power. Now the people have distanced from the party and it would be difficult to attract a large number of people for the rally”, Sultan said. Sheikh tried to silence Sultan but he refused to budge. Angry Sheikh directed the party workers to throw Sultan out leading to a clash between the two. At this point another block president of the party Ghulam Mohammad Narbali joined the issue with Sheikh. Narbali was also thrown out at the directions of Shiekh. On this the assembled party office-bearers walked out and raised slogans against the party leadership.—
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Held ultras did
recce of Delhi Jammu, June 30 During preliminary interrogation, the four — Amin alias Nazir Ahmed, Shabir Ahmed (area commander), Abdul Hamid (tehsil commander) and Farooq Ahmed — admitted to been in Delhi where they had carried out "full recce" of vital installations and public places, the sources said. They also visited Chandigarh and some parts of Punjab during their trip to build up HUJI modules in different parts of the country, the sources said. The four HUJI ultras were arrested at Basholi Morh in Kathua district, 95 km from here, last evening, from a truck coming from Punjab to Jammu and Kashmir. One Chinese pistol, some documents, two russian binoculars, two grenades and two fake identity cards, besides Rs 8,50.000 were recovered from them, the sources said. Amin has received arms training in Afghanistan. —
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Chandanwari cave to be opened for pilgrims Jammu, June 30 "The work of construction of mettled foot path to 4,000 metres high, the three mouthed cave shrine is going on a war footing and efforts are on to open it for pilgrims this year," Minister of State for Tourism Gulam Ahmed Mir said here today. The cave temple complex surrounded by thick birch trees, comprises three in-built caves all dedicated to Lord Shiva in a nine-feet area of white stones. Located just above a tree line of picturesque landscape and sheltered by the golden leaves of trees, the main Shiva statue in black marble is two-feet high and is sculptured of a big rock in the cave. On the two sides of Lord Shiva's murti, there are nearly a dozen small and big lingas. The contents of the third inside cave continue to be a "mystery" due to darkness within, according to divisional Commissioner Kashmir Parvez Dewan, who along with a shepherd, Haji Mohammad Rafique Bocken, discovered it two years ago. He pointed out that the pilgrims could have been using this route years ago. However, topographical changes might have later blocked it, he added. He said the recent rediscovery of Hapatgandh and the Shiv Marg had given a new dimension to the belief that the Amarnath yatra dated back to even before 1750 AD. "We want people to know about this cave. devotees can visit this shrine nearly eight or nine months a year and this could help alleviate the problem of unemployment in the area", the Commissioner said. —
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