January 1
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LeT
militants shot dead two troopers of Territorial Army (TA) after
abducting them in upper reaches of Bhimdassa in Gool area of Ramban
District.
Army arrested
a Pakistani national, suspected to be a guide of the militants,
on the LoC at MSD Post near Kanga forward area of Balakote in
the Mendhar sector of Poonch District.
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January 2
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Amidst reports
that the separatists and their sympathisers were preparing for
another bout of street protests in the summer of 2011, there is
little likelihood of the thinning of Security Forces in the State,
Government sources said, IANS reported on January 2. "There is
no question of taking any chances at this stage; we will have
to go by security considerations and not by the political thinking
of the groups," said an unnamed senior officer who attended a
meeting of the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi.
The State is
preparing for a crowd control system. "We are going to shift to
non-lethal means," Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda told
Police officers at a meeting in Jammu last week.
Chief spokesman
of Hurriyat Conference Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat said that "our
own people" killed Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq, Abdul Gani Lone,
and academicians like Abdul Ahad Wani. Professor Bhat, at a seminar
organised by the JKLF in Srinagar to pay tributes to one of its
ideologues, Professor Wani, had said: "Lone sahib, Mirwaiz
[Mohammad] Farooq, and Professor Wani were not killed by the Army
or the police. They were targeted by our own people. The story
is a long one, but we have to tell the truth."
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January 3
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A total of
7,031 civilians and Security Force personnel have lost their lives
due to violence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the last 10
years, Daily Excelsior reported on January 3. "4,812 civilians
and 2,219 Security Force personnel have lost their lives since
2001 to August 2010 in Jammu and Kashmir," the Union Home Ministry
said in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query.
Troops of Rashtriya
Rifles continued massive search operations in Bhimdassa and its
surrounding areas of Kheori Kund and Bhatpora in Ramban District
to track down LeT militant Abu Moosa and his associates involved
in the killing of two jawans of Territorial Army.
Army personnel
foiled an infiltration attempt at the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector
in Poonch District.
A joint team
of Territorial Army and Police neutralised a hideout of the militants
in Keri forest area of Kalakote in Rajouri District.
DGP Kuldeep
Khoda said that five out of 10 Districts of Jammu region were
completely free of militancy while in other Districts the militancy
has sharply declined even as he announced that five special battalions
of Police will be ready during next two months to meet the law
and order situation and take up the challenge posed by stone throwers
in future.
Nearly half
a dozen women harbourers of the militants have surfaced in Doda
District following sustained questioning of arrested HM ‘divisional
commanders’ Ghulam Nabi Sheikh alias Javaid Qureshi and Jameel
Ahmed alias Nissar Qureshi, Daily Excelsior reported on January
3. More than 30 Over Ground Workers (OGWs) have also figured in
the interrogation of the two militants, who were arrested in December
in Dehradun (Uttaranchal) and Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) respectively
and now have been shifted to Doda.
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January 4-5
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An unidentified
youth was shot dead during an ambush by Army troops in Kupwara,
officials said on January 5. "Troops of 18 Rashtriya Rifles had
laid an ambush in the forest area of Warnav in Lolab, 120 kms
from here, last night [January 4]. They noticed some suspicious
movement and opened fire, resulting in the death of the youth,"
said Deputy Inspector General of Police, North Kashmir, Muneer
Ahmad Khan. He said the Army reported the matter to police and
efforts were being made to identify the deceased youth. "We called
residents from nearby villages but no one has identified the deceased
so far," Khan added. The officer said investigations are going
on to ascertain the reasons for the presence of the youth in the
area at the time of the incident which took place at 9:30pm.
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January 6
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Accusing separatists
of adopting double standards on dialogue for the resolution of
Jammu and Kashmir issue, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked them
to hold talks with the Centre's interlocutors, saying the panel
is not bound by redlines. "I am surprised that the separatists
can talk to Parliamentarians, who have taken oath of Indian constitution
and treat Kashmir as an integral part of the country. What is
the harm in talking to the interlocutors, who have no boundaries
or redlines," Omar said.
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January 7
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The SFs recovered
a powerful 10 kilograms of IED and five grenades besides other
arms and ammunition during a search operation at Koteranka in
Rajouri District.
A woman Over
Ground Worker (OGW) of the HM, identified as Yasmeena Banoo, was
arrested by Police along arms and ammunition at village Sirwal
in the Marmat area of Doda District.
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January 8
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SFs neutralised
a militant hideout and recovered some ammunition and explosives
in Poonch District.
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January 10
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Police arrested
three persons and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition,
including an anti-tank mine which they were planning to supply
to militants, in Uri area of Baramulla District.
The SFs arrested
an OGW in Gool area of Ramban District.
Accusing the
Centre of pushing the youth in Jammu and Kashmir to wall, the
All Party Hurriyat Conference-Geelani (APHC-G) chairman Syed Ali
Shah Geelani advised the youth against taking up arms and called
for peaceful means to take the ongoing "freedom struggle" to its
logical conclusion.
Geelani has
also called for a state-wide shutdown on January 15 against the
‘arrests of youth and human rights violations’, adds Times of
India. "I urge people to observe a complete bandh on Jan 15,"
Geelani said.
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January 11
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SFs arrested
two OGWs of (HM, including an employee of PHE Department in Ramban.
Sources said
the OGWs were being questioned to ascertain the hideouts of Abu
Moosa, who was instrumental in the killing of two Territorial
Army personnel at Bhimdassa in Gool on January 1.
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January 12
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Army recovered
three 28 kilograms of weight improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
and a large quantity of other explosive material besides Pakistan
made medicines from Kandi in the Kotranka area of Rajouri District.
Another consignment
of arms and ammunition was seized in Khet area of Sabjian in the
Poonch District. Recoveries include one AK-74 rifle, two magazines,
two Chinese grenades, eight hand grenades, 65 AK rounds, 27 used
rounds, one antenna, one pouch, two detonators with wire, one
battery charger and a medicines kit.
Police arrested
four persons, including two Kashmiri youths and two Bengali boys,
for their suspected militant connections and recovered INR 1.5
lakh fake currency from their possession, which they had smuggled
from Pakistan.
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January 12-13
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Another infiltration
attempt was foiled by Army on the Line of Control (LoC) at Shahpur
in the Kerni area of Poonch District in the night of January 12.
Official sources said Pakistan Army started firing from their
forward positions at 11.30pm opposite Shahpur in a bid to give
cover to a group of five to six militants trying to infiltrate
into Indian territory from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The
Indian troops retaliated and neutralized the intruders. Sources
said a heavy exchange of firing from both sides continued till
6am on January 13. An Army trooper was injured in firing by Pakistan
Army. A couple of infiltrators were also reported to have been
injured in retaliatory firing by the Indian troops but they managed
to escape back. This is the second cease-fire violation by Pakistani
troops IN 2011.
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January 13
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A militant
was killed as the Security Forces (SFs) foiled an infiltration
bid by the militants in the Keri sector of Rajouri District on
January 13, reports Daily Excelsior.
The SFs detected
and later defused an IED kept under a culvert at Mankote on Jammu-Poonch
road via Mendhar in Poonch District. Some local militants of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM) were reported to have planted the IED on the road.
Three alleged
(OGWs of militants were arrested in Ganderbal District, Police
said. The three arrested persons, identified as Gulzar Ahmad Khatana,
Mohammad Shafi Banya and Abdul Khaliq, were arrested for providing
logistic support and SIM cards to Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, a top militant,
who is involved in 25 civilian killings in the area.
Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah said the unrests that rocked the Kashmir valley
every summer for the past three years will not be allowed to be
repeated in 2011 and any attempt to disturb peace will be defeated.
Director General
of Police Kuldeep Khoda said that in 2010 the State recorded the
lowest ever militancy-related incidents in the last 21 years.
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January 14
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The Union Home
Secretary G. K. Pillai said that Union Government is panning to
reduce the presence of paramilitary forces in populated areas
of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by 25 percent over the next 12
months as a CBM.
Army chief
General V. K. Singh, later in the day, said although he was unaware
of the Ministry of Home Affairs plan to reduce paramilitary presence
in J&K, he was sure any such step would be taken after discussions
in the Unified Command Head Quarters operating in the State.
The HM ‘chief’
Syed Salahuddin has said frequent strikes and shutdowns diluted
the summer agitation in Kashmir.
Police arrested
one person from Baramulla District and recovered fake Indian currency
notes (FICN) from him
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January 16
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The Security
Forces recovered a consignment of explosive devices and ammunition
from village Gadyog under the jurisdiction of Budhal Police Station
in Rajouri District.
Police arrested
a top ‘commander’ of HM from the city centre at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
Security agencies
have sounded a 'high-alert' in Kashmir following intelligence
inputs that militants may mark their presence on the eve of Republic
Day [January 26].
General Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, Lieutenant General K. T.
Parnaik has said that time was not right to go for 25 per cent
reduction in troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
While referring
to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Jammu and Kashmir, General
Parnaik said Army was working under pressing and adverse situation
in Jammu and Kashmir. For performing under such difficult situation,
the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was very essential.
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January 17
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Inspector General (IG) of CRPF,
Jammu Sector, Dinesh Kumar, said that no directions have been
received from the Force Headquarters (Delhi) or the Union Home
Ministry regarding pull out of CRPF battalions from J&K State.
When asked about any earlier move
regarding pull out of some companies or battalions, the IG said
about 40 per cent of the total CRPF force (nearly 80 Battalions),
have been deployed in J&K out of the total 216 in the country.
Some time back, there was demand of 10 battalions of the Force
in Naxal [Left Wing Extremism] hit States including Jharkhand
and Chhattisgarh. It was then proposed to withdraw some battalions
from here. Thereafter, the decision was reviewed and no such proposal
came here.
Continuing its crackdown on the
Facebook users, who instigate violence in Kashmir, Police arrested
a class 12th student for being involved in the online protests.
Pakistan has pumped FICN worth
several crores in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi and Bangalore through
Bangladesh-West Bengal border using a number of fresh recruit
of J&K, Bihar, West Bengal and other parts of the country.
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January 18
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Security Forces neutralised a
hideout of the militants in the Thanole forests area of Reasi
District and recovered a consignment of explosives and ammunition.
Recoveries made from the hideout included two kilograms of RDX,
one IED, 150 AK rounds, five RPF rounds and 10 cells.
Police arrested a dismissed Police
Constable for his alleged links with HM 'divisional commander'
Javaid Qureshi, who was arrested in December month from Dehradun
in Uttaranchal.
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January 19
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Police arrested a woman militant
and a Police Constable for their 'close links' with arrested HM
'divisional commander' Ghulam Nabi Sheikh alias Javaid Qureshi
in two separate search operations conducted at Jammu and Doda.
The woman militant, identified as Kulsooma Begum Wife of one Tariq
Ahmed Sheikh, a resident of Labbar in the Marmat area of Doda
District, was arrested from the premises of GMC in Jammu where
she had come for treatment after remaining in hibernation for
past more than a month.
The Police Constable Satish Kumar
alias Doctor was arrested from Doda for supplying arms and ammunition
to the militants especially Javaid Qureshi.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah rubbished
the perception that stone-pelters on Srinagar streets in 2010
summer were well-to-do, educated youth, saying a Government survey
had proved they were jobless men from poor and mostly illiterate
families. He, however, conceded that there might have been some
educated youth involved as well with some economic opportunities
as an incentive. The stone-throwers weren't driven by alienation
alone and the unrest had no correlation to militancy, he said.
On troops cut he said that the
State Government is ready to put in more than 5,000 locally-recruited
Policemen, trained as commandos, to tackle possible separatist
protests like the ones seen in 2010, and fill the void that will
be created when the Centre pulls out paramilitary forces from
the Valley and parts of Jammu. In fact, nearly 40,000 personnel
(both from Army and paramilitary) had been relocated from populated
areas in the State in 2009 when there was a period of calm. They
all had to move in again after street violence erupted in 2010.
Removal of bunkers, revoking the operation of Disturbed Areas
Act from some urban areas and recruitment of local youths in State
Police, paramilitary forces and Army are some of the other measures
that are at different stages of implementation.
Asked about his Government's stand
on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Omar said "it
is not a mere political cry for my Government. It is a reflection
of the sentiments of people who want to get rid of the laws that
were imposed two decades back when the situation was abnormal",
adds Daily Excelsior. Favouring amendments AFSPA or its removal
from some areas of the State, Omar said, "As the semblance of
normalcy was visible on the ground we have already starting reducing
the number of boots on the ground. Dismantling of some bunkers
from city and adjoining areas was the first step in the process
and we hope to continue until we reach a level where the visible
presence is greatly reduced at least."
The Interlocutors on Jammu and
Kashmir expressed confidence that the Army will soon be on same
page (of the Union Home Ministry and State Government) on the
question of troops withdrawal in the State paving the way for
reduction of Security Forces in the Kashmir valley.
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January 21
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An infiltrator was killed while
two others managed to escape to Pakistan after a heavy exchange
of firing on the International Border (IB) in Paragwal sector
of Akhnoor tehsil (revenue unit) in Jammu District.
A female cadre of the militant
outfit HM was arrested by the Police in Doda District of Jammu.
The militant, identified as Ruksana Begum along with an accomplice
Farooq Ahmed were arrested from the District Hospital in Doda
while they were about to extort 50,000 INR as `terror fund' from
a Block Development Officer (BDO). Two more members of the outfit,
who were extorting money from Government officials, contractors
and other influential persons, are currently absconding.
Defence Minister A. K. Antony
categorically ruled out any further troop cut in Jammu and Kashmir
on the ground that Defence Ministry had already reduced nearly
30,000 troops in the State.
The team of Interlocutors, appointed
by the Government in October 2010 to find a political settlement
to Kashmir, said most of the people they met were not concerned
about implementation of the UN resolutions and division of the
State along ethnic or religious lines but felt people's empowerment
can address the vexed issue.
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January 22
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Militants fired upon Harni Police
Post and an Army patrol at Achhad in the Mendhar area of Poonch
District. Police and Army personnel retaliated after which the
militants escaped. No casualties were reported on either side.
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January 23
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The SFs recovered one pistol,
538 AK rounds and two RPGs from village Saqrawat in Rajouri District.
The SFs arrested a woman Over
Ground Worker of HM in Zabafara village area of Ramban District.
The arrestee, identified as Shamima Begum (30), is the wife of
top HM militant Ghulam Qadir Malik.
A close associate of APHC-G chairman
Syed Ali Shah Geelani was arrested in connection with an alleged
Hawala (illegal money transfer) racket. "Ghulam Mohammad Bhat,
who has been a financier of disruptive activities, has been arrested,"
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) S M Sahai said, adding,
INR 21 lakh were recovered from Bhat's possession at the time
of his arrest from his Hyderpora residence on January 22. Bhat
was injured in a scuffle between Police and his family who tried
to resist his arrest. Two other persons -- one hailing from Kupwara
and another from Sopore in Baramulla District -- have also been
arrested in connection with the case.
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January 24
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Panic gripped
Sopore Township in Baramulla District following a brief exchange
of fire between two militants and Police.
Police arrested
a woman courier, Nighat Siddiqui (45), who was carrying INR 3
lakh for LeT militants, from the Eidgah area of Srinagar city.
She was also carrying one leaf of LeT letter head at the time
of the arrest.
Inspector General
of BSF, Kashmir frontier, Baljit Singh said that troops guarding
the LoC remained on high alert to foil any infiltration attempt
by militants waiting near the border. About the exact number of
militants operating in the Kashmir valley, he said nothing can
be said for sure. But there could be around 250 to 300, he said
adding nobody has done exact head count.
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January 26
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A close associate
of APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani arrested in connection
with an alleged Hawala (illegal money transfer) racket
was remanded in the custody of Delhi Police for 10 days.
Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah called for utilizing present conducive atmosphere
of dialogue in a positive manner to address political issues of
Jammu and Kashmir politically.
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January 27
|
Pakistan Rangers
fired upon a bullet proof vehicle of BSF at forward village of
Khwara in Samba sector. The firing was immediately retaliated
by the BSF troopers. There were no casualties on the BSF side
during the firing though a couple of bullets directly hit the
vehicle.
Police recovered
a consignment of arms and ammunition from Rattu Pani and Pallni
areas of Marmat in Doda District on the disclosures of arrested
HM ‘divisional commander’ Jameel Ahmed alias Naseer Qureshi.
Police arrested
a self-styled ‘financial commander’ and coordinator of HM, identified
as Ali Mohammad Naik, on Sathoora road near Tral in Pulwama District.
Police detained
three teenaged boys, who wanted to join militancy, in Kulgam District
but let them off after counseling in view of their young age.
Army Chief General
V K Singh describing the prevailing security situation in Jammu
and Kashmir said though the scenario has improved, there was no
question of withdrawing Army troops from there.
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January 28
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The three hawala
(illegal money transfer) conduits, including Ghulam Mohammad Bhat,
a close associate of APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who
were arrested on January 23 by Srinagar Police and Delhi Police's
special cell from Srinagar along with INR 21 lakh made a revelation
that this money was being sent to Jammu & Kashmir via Delhi
by the ISI, Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, for stone-pelters,
to deliberately create unrest in the valley. The money is being
routed to J&K from Pakistan through a Delhi-based hawala
dealer, who is yet to be arrested.
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January 30
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The Task Forces
constituted to assess special developmental needs of Jammu and
Ladakh regions, are going to submit their interim reports to the
Union Home Ministry by middle of February.
The APHC-G
chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani said a political solution was the
only way out to resolve the Kashmir problem.
The militancy
affected people from Jammu region have decided to stand united
and formed new body under the banner "Tehreek-e-Insaf Jammu Province"
and elected its office bearers.
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January 31
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Three LeT militants,
including a Pakistani, shot dead two sisters, Arifa and Akhtar,
daughters of Ghulam Nabi Dar, after dragging them out of their
house at Muslim Peer in Sopore town of Baramulla District.
The Jammu &
Kashmir Government has abandoned the INR 740 crore integrated
watershed development project after the World Bank sought a disclaimer
from the Union Government that the aid plan would not recognize
India's territorial claim over the State.
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February 1
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Sopore Superintendent
of Police (SP) Altaf Khan said that the Police have identified
the killers of two sisters, Arifa and Akhtar, who were, as reported
earlier, killed on January 31 in Sopore in Baramulla District.
Of the three militants two identified as local militants Muzaffar
Naiko and Wasim Gania — students of a madrassa (seminary) in Muslim
Peer locality in Sopore. Another militant was a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) cadre. "There are around 13 madrassas in Sopore and the
Government is aware of their existence. We'd informed the authorities
about their indoctrination but nothing was done about it," said
an unnamed Police officer. SP Altaf Khan said these madrassas
are breeding grounds for militants, adding, "We have strong inputs
that these are run by the Lashkar."
A HM overground
worker, Fayaz Ahmad Wani, a resident of Pattan in Baramulla District,
who allegedly raised and distributed INR 70,000 among Kashmiri
stone-pelters, was arrested by the Baramulla.
Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah emphasised that "political solutions for the problems
besetting" the State have to be worked out on a pragmatic basis.
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February 2
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Militants attacked
the house of former Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president
Ghulam Rasool Kar and a roadside CRPF bunker in Sopore in Baramulla
District. Official sources said militants lobbed hand grenade
towards the heavily guarded house of former PCC president Ghulam
Rasool Kar at Sopore. The grenade missed the intended target and
exploded on the road. The sources said another grenade was hurled
towards a roadside bunker of CRPF in the town which exploded without.
However, no casualties were reported in both the incidents.
A HM militant,
identified as Ghulam Rasool Bhat alias Alam, was arrested by the
Police at Pattan in Sopore. One Chinese pistol, one magazine and
six rounds were recovered from his possession.
As many as
nine youths were arrested on the charges of stone pelting in Baramulla
District, reports Daily Excelsior. They were responsible for creating
law and order problems in Kreeri area during the unrest in the
Valley in 2010 and were evading arrest, Police said.
SFs observed
movement of some groups of militants very close to the LoC in
Mendhar and Krishna Ghati sectors of Poonch District and Nowshera
in Rajouri.
Union Minister
for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah reiterated his stand on withdrawing
defence forces from Jammu and Kashmir and asked its people to
realise their power.
Inspector General
(Operations) CRPF B N Ramesh said that Israeli-made TAVOR rifle
was better than the AK-47 for counter insurgency operations in
Jammu and Kashmir and Naxal [Left Wing Extremism]-affected areas
of the country.
Union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram would be visiting militancy-infested Kishtwar
District on February 4 and review security, law and order and
terror situation in five districts of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban,
Udhampur and Reasi with Police and civil administration.
Sources said
50 militants, mostly top ‘commanders’ of LeT, HUJI and HM outfits
were killed in Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban Districts in 2010 while
48 militants were killed in Doda District alone in 2009. In Reasi
District, more than 30 militants, including some ‘commanders’,
were eliminated in 2010. Doda District was left with not even
a single foreign mercenary. Recently, Director General of Police
Kuldeep Khoda had stated in a press conference that five Districts
of Jammu region including Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur and Reasi
were "free of militancy’’.
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February 2-3
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Militants attacked
SFs’ patrol parties at two different places in Pulwama District.
Official sources said on February 3 that militants attacked patrol
parties at village Dobiwan and Dadsar Tral. No one was injured
in these attacks and the militants managed to escape when SFs
retaliated.
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February 3
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The SFs recovered
and defused two IEDs near Marazi Mohalla in Halmatpora in Kupwara
District.
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February 4
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Union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram said that SFs and Police should stamp
out residual militancy in the State but, at the same time, make
all out efforts to win over the youth and keep a close rapport
with them to ensure that they are not misused at the time of unrest
by some vested interests.
According to
secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, terror training
camps, though not directly run by the Pakistan Government, continue
to operate along India-Pakistan border creating potential for
conflict with India and instability in the region.
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February 5
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Militants shot
at and injured an activist of ruling NC in Pulwama District. The
militants shot Farooq Ahmad Sheikh at his native Koil village
soon after he came out of a mosque after offering prayers at around
8pm, the sources said. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility
for the attack so far.
Six more people,
allegedly involved in the stone pelting incidents during 2010
summer turmoil in Baramulla District, were arrested at Kreeri
Pattan in Baramulla. These stone-pelters were evading their arrest
since long and were responsible for creating law and order problems
in Kreeri area. With this a total of 15 stone-pelters were arrested
in Kreeri during the last two weeks.
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February 6
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The SFs recovered
a cache of arms and ammunitions, including disposable rocket launchers,
in Rajouri District.
Troops neutralised
a major hideout of LeT ‘commander’ Habib Gujjar alias Salman at
village Danay in Chatroo area of Kishtwar District.
SFs arrested
an OGW of the militants, identified as Mohammad Noorani, from
village Balasama in Kalakote tehsil (revenue unit) of Rajouri
District. The accused was arrested by SFs following reports that
he was working for HM.
Number of the
applications received under Rehabilitation Policy for the militants
held up in Pakistan and PoK has crossed 300 during past two weeks.
Assuring that
the Army would soon complete its probe into the killing of a 21-year-old
youth in Handwara in Baramulla District in the night of February
5, the GOC of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lieutenant General
S.A. Hasnain, said the Army followed SOP while fighting militancy.
He said Army's objective was to restore normalcy with the cooperation
of the general public. Hasnain told journalists that SOP was followed
in Handwara.
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February 8
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Army and Police
shot dead three top HM militants, including a ‘divisional commander’,
in an encounter inside a 60 feet deep nullah at village Manjoosh
near Nachlana in the Khari area of Banihal tehsil (revenue unit)
in Ramban District. Dead bodies of the slain militants, identified
as Abdul Rashid Naik alias Qari Zubair, Nasir Ahmed Naik and Mushtaq
Ahmed, were recovered from the nullah. While Qari Zubair was a
‘divisional commander’ of HM’s Pir Panjal Regiment, Nasir was
a ‘district commander’ and Mushtaq was a ‘battalion commander’
of the outfit.
Significantly,
the hideout of the militants was located just one kilometer away
from Manjoosh Police post. The militants had been using a rope
to reach to 60 feet deep inside the nullah to hide them. With
the killings, now only 27 militants were left in Doda-Ramban range,
including 10 in Ramban District (seven of HM Pir Panjal Regiment
and three of LeT [Lashkar-e-Toiba] Abu Moosa group), Inspector
General of Police (Jammu) Dilbagh Singh said.
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February 10
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Unidentified
assailants struck twice in a span of six hours in Sopore town
of Baramulla District, injuring two civilians. In the first attack,
one Majid Bashir (33) was shot at and injured by the assailants
at around 10.00am inside his shop in the town. The second attack
took place at around 4.00pm, when assailants fired at Arif Hussain
Reshi (27) at a cigarette shop in Sopore market. No militant outfit
has claimed responsibility for the attacks so far.
The chairman
of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League Mushtaq-ul-Islam was arrested
from his residence in Batamaloo locality in Srinagar, leading
to brief protests in the area.
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February 11
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Daily Excelsior
reports that SFs neutralised a militant hideout and recovered
ammunition and explosives in Lone locality of the Sogam area in
Kupwara District.
Eight LeT ‘commanders’,
operating in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for past about one
and a half decade, have responded to Rehabilitation Policy of
the Government and asked their families to file applications on
their behalf for return to homes in Doda and Kishtwar Districts.
Six applications have been filed in Kishtwar District and two
in Doda district. As many as 265 militants of Doda, Kishtwar and
Ramban Districts have been identified by Police and security agencies,
who were in Pakistan and PoK for past several years. Recently,
the number of applications under the Rehabilitation Policy had
crossed 300. The applications are reviewed every week.
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February 12
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Protests erupted
in old Baramulla town after a youth was arrested by Police from
Kakkar Hamam area. In the clashes two civilians and one Policeman
was injured. The youth was arrested by Police on charges of stone
pelting in the area. Police has launched action against the stone
pelters in the town and four stone pelters have been arrested
so far. While one stone pelter was arrested on February 11, three
more were arrested on February 12.
Special Judge
TADA/POTA Court, Pawan Dev Kotwal, awarded eight years imprisonment
to seven alleged supporters of militants after 20 years of trial.
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February 13
|
Army and Police
arrested two top HM militants, who happened to be close associates
of recently slain HM ‘divisional commander’ Qari Zubair, after
an encounter in their house at Bhimdassa in Gool area of Ramban
District. The arrestees, identified as Tariq Ahmed Chandel and
Rafiq Ahmed, were ‘B’ category militants.
The Centre
has planned to withdraw nearly 10,000 Central Para Military Forces
(CPMFs) from Jammu and Kashmir in 2011 as it feels that the State
can do with less central forces.
On the amendments
on AFSPA, he said this is an issue which has to be decided politically.
The Home Secretary
allayed fears that violence may return in the Kashmir Valley,
saying several major steps have been taken post-September 2010.
Continuing its action against
the stone pelters, Police arrested 12 stone pelters from Kreeri
and Pattan areas. These stone pelters were wanted in different
cases of stone pelting in the District.
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February 14
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Army and Police conducted a major
search operation for three LeT militants at Bafliaz in the Surankote
area of Poonch District. The militants, however, managed to escape.
The SFs continued searches at
several areas of Gool in Ramban District to arrest or eliminate
LeT top ‘commander’ Abu Moosa, involved in a series of militant
activities.
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February 15
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Unidentified assailants opened
fire on the house of a Government employee at Dorhama in the Kreeri
area of Pattan tehsil (revenue unit) in Baramulla District, injuring
two girls.
Militants lobbed a grenade towards
a SFs bunker near bus stand in the Sopore town.
Army said that the security situation
in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has come to a "satisfactory" level
and the number of militants operating in the State has fallen
by half in the past few years. "The security situation in Jammu
and Kashmir has come to a satisfactory level. The number of militants
operating in Jammu and Kashmir has decreased to 400 from 800-900
in the past few years," General Officer Commanding (GOC, 9 Corps),
Lieutenant General A K Choudhary told reporters. Talking about
infiltration he said, "Infiltration attempts and number of
militants entering J&K has come down."
Army Chief General V K Singh talking
about the proposal to withdraw the AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir
stated that the matter was under Government consideration.
The Union Home Ministry has agreed
to provide nearly INR 30 crore worth assistance for the purchase
of non-lethal weapons and ammunition for the Jammu and Kashmir
Police and para-military personnel.
For the first time, all five new
Police battalions being inducted in the Kashmir valley would have
full protection light body gears, which would protect them from
any kind of mob fury while maintaining law and order, he added.
The Police and para-military personnel will be equipped with poly
carbonize sheets and lathis.
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February 16
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The NIA filed the final charge
sheet in a special court in Kochi against 24 accused, including
a Pakistan national, in the "Kashmir terror recruitment"
case, relating to enrolment of several youths from Kerala for
anti-national activities.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is under control and people
of the State can look forward to "orderly development" and job
opportunities for the youths in the near future.
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February 17
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Policemen repulsed a militant
attack on their post in Baramulla, official sources said.
A meeting attended by DGP Kuldeep
Khoda, Principal Secretary (Home) B R Sharma and Commander of
the Army’s 15 Corps, which guards the LoC in Kashmir Valley, Lieutenant
General A Hasnain reviewed withdrawal of Disturbed Area Act from
Srinagar and Budgam. However, no decision was yet known on the
issue. A similar committee of DGP, Home Secretary and Army Corps
Commander based at Nagrota will review the withdrawal of the Act
in Jammu. As per norms, once the Disturbed Area Act is removed,
the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) automatically ceases
to be in force.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced
the removal of 12 more bunkers from the Srinagar city as part
of an exercise launched last year to reduce the footprints of
the Security Forces in the Valley. With this, the total number
of security bunkers removed in the Valley stands at 39 with 27
of them removed earlier by the Government in two phases. The decision
to undertake removal of bunkers in other towns will be taken shortly,
an official spokesperson said. Also, Abdullah again urged the
separatist leaders to accept the invitation and enter into a dialogue
with interlocutors for finding a solution to Kashmir issue.
Army foiled an infiltration attempt
on the Line of Control (LoC) at Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch
District.
Defence Minister A K Antony dismissed
demands for the withdrawal of AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir, saying
infiltration attempts were still continuing and terrorists could
not be given any "opportunity to succeed" there.
Antony also acknowledged that
separatists in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East are "misusing"
social networking sites and said "proper corrective action" will
be taken.
Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's February 16 statement about the situation in Kashmir being
under control, APHC-G leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani said the present
lull in violence in the Valley was temporary.
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February 18
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Militants shot dead a National
Conference (NC) activist, identified as Ghulam Hassan Dar, in
Hajan area of Bandipora District.
Militants hurled two grenades
at an Army camp at Ganjoo House in Sopore in Baramulla District,
authorities said, adding that the explosives went-off by the roadside.
However, there was no report of any damage to property or life.
According to Police, there were more than 40 militants active
in Sopore town and adjoining villages.
Four persons, including three
Policemen, were injured in Baramulla, when a group of protesters
pelted stones on Police at Cement bridge and SRTC bridge. Reports
said that clashes broke out when Police did not allow some youth
to carry out a pro-separatist procession in main Baramulla town
after the Friday prayers.
The Government has booked as many
as 195 stone pelters under the PSA to ensure a peaceful summer
in the Kashmir Valley in 2011.
Sources said police have definite
reports of HM supreme ‘commander’ Syed Salah-ud-Din again trying
to instigate the stone pelters to gear up for the upcoming summer.
Hurriyat Conference leader and
chairman Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah was
arrested by the Police outside the Hazratbal shrine after offering
the Friday prayers.
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February 19
|
Police and CRPF destroyed a hideout
of LeT outfit at Keshwan in Kishtwar District and recovered ammunition
and other material.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
the withdrawal of AFSPA can be decided by consultation between
the Union Government and the State Government, claiming, however,
that the Chief Minister was empowered to revoke the law.
In an effort to reach out to separatists,
the interlocutors on Kashmir have sent a formal invitation to
the APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of APHC-M
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chief of JKLF Yasin Malik and People's Conference
leader Sajjad Lone. So far, the separatists have refused to talk
to the interlocutors. Geelani has been told in the invitation
that even if he isn't ready to meet the interlocutors, he can
send his views in a written note. ''Even if you don't want to
meet us, we are eager to hear from you and you can send your proposal
to us in a written format,'' it added.
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February 20
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Police have reportedly arrested
four close associates of LeT ‘commander’ Abu Moosa from Banihal
in Ramban District.
An alert was sounded across south
Kashmir to foil any militant attack using a car, snatched by two
unidentified gunmen from a civilian in Shopian District.
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February 21
|
General Officer Commanding (GOC,
15 Corps) Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnainon said there are
no reports of infiltration adding that the same may not be ruled
once summer sets in. Talking about the troops cut, he said that
recent decision of troops cut is not applicable to Army.
The special cell of Delhi Police
has confirmed that it has asked APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani not to leave the city after one of his close associates
was found involved in a hawala(illegal money transfer)
racket.
Two new pro-India political outfits
are being launched in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), headed by former
militants and Ikhwan (counter-terrorist militia) ‘commanders’,
with the backing of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and
the Indian Army. They are in the process of hiring office space
right in front of the headquarters of All Party Hurriyat Conference,
an amalgam of pro-Pakistan separatist outfits, in Srinagar's Rajbagh
locality. While one outfit, with the backing of the MHA, will
be headed by former Ikhwans and ex-militant ‘commanders’Zubair-ul-Islam
and Imran Rahi, the other is being launched by former militant
‘commander’ from Anantnag, Liaquat Ali is believed to have the
backing of Army.
The three central interlocutors
for Jammu and Kashmir held discussions with Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah as they embarked on their fifth visit to the State in
four months and also voiced their willingness to meet the separatist
leadership anywhere. The team has extended an invitation to separatist
leadership in the valley, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq and Sajjad Lone for a meeting. However, there has
been no response so far from separatists. The team had earlier
visited the State on October 23, November 10and December 17 in
2010 and January 18 in 2011.
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February 22
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Security Forces detected and defused
two live mortar bombs from village Lamberi in Nowshera tehsil
(revenue unit) of Rajouri District.
Police arrested a militant, identified
as Bashir Ahmed Naik, from Bolna Top in Khari area of Banihal
in Ramban District and recovered arms and explosive material from
his possession.
The Centre is considering withdrawal
of more CPMFs from Jammu and Kashmir as situation in the Valley
is improving.
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February 23
|
Two militant hideouts were neutralized
in Anantnag and Kupwara Districts and a huge cache of arms and
ammunition was recovered from there. On a tip off, the SFs neutralized
hideout during a search operation at village Akingam-Achabal in
Anantnag District. In another operation, a hideout was neutralized
by the Security Forces at Maidhanpora-Lalpora in Kupwara District.
Police recovered a haul of grenades
from the food corner just besides the Jammu Tawi Railway Station
in Jammu.
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February 24
|
Noting that Jammu and Kashmir
had gone through a "difficult time" in 2010, Prime Minister (PM)
Manmohan Singh said the Government was keeping its "fingers crossed"
this summer while remaining vigilant as he asserted that no quarter
should be given to secessionists.
Asserting that the dialogue process
set to be resumed, he asked Pakistan to grasp its hand of friendship
and made it clear that all issues can be resolved if it stopped
use of its territory for anti-India activities.
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February 25
|
Troops of Poonch Brigade arrested
two former HM militants along with their wives and seven children
soon after they crossed the LoC from forward area of Nakarket
in Digwar sub sector of Poonch District.
The State Government has ordered
reopening of educational institutions, including recognized Private
Schools up to Higher Secondary level of Kashmir Division (excluding
Ladakh region) and also those falling in winter zone of Jammu
Division from March 1 after observing winter vacations.
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February 26
|
An encounter was going on in Keri
forests of Budhal area in Rajouri District after five to six Village
Defence Committee (VDC) members were fired upon by two militants
causing injuries to one of them. Army and Police have cordoned
off the forests and were hunting the militants.
The Centre's interlocutors on
Jammu and Kashmir, senior journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academician
Radha Kumar and Information Commissioner M. M. Ansari, made it
clear that they would go ahead with submitting their report to
the Government with or without inputs from separatists, as they
had stretched the limits of courtesy in reaching out to them.
Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Shah, however, has responded
to their invitation, though with some conditions.
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February 27
|
Suspected militants shot dead
a truck driver inside his house in Pulwama District, officials
said. Mohammad Ayoub Wani was killed when he returned to his house
in Kakapora town from a mosque after offering prayers. Two of
Wani's brothers are employed in the Police department. No militant
outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Security Forces recovered a huge
cache of arms and explosives dumped by militants near Ferozpur
stream in Sumbal area of Bandipora District.
Police said a number of surrendered
militants and criminals also figured in the list of gun licenses
issued by Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM, Mendhar in Poonch District)
Mukhtiar Choudhary, who has gone underground along with two clerks
of his office.
The two arrested HM militants,
both named Showkat Hussain, have revealed that a large number
of youth, who had crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)
from this part of the State during past two decades, were now
forced to work as labourers or perform other type of manual job
after being thrown out of training camps by Pakistan Army and
militant ‘commanders’ due to their over-age, lack of proper training
and refusal to become fidayeens (suicide bombers).
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked
Islamabad to act responsibly to ensure that there is no violation
of ceasefire.
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February 28
|
Militants shot at and injured
a shopkeeper, identified as Nazir Ahmad, at his shop in the Kreeri
area of Baramulla District.
Two Policemen and a civilian were
injured in a grenade attack by militants in Batamaloo area in
Srinagar.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah once
again underlined the importance of resolving political issues
of Jammu and Kashmir politically. CM Omar Abdullah once again
underlined the importance of resolving political issues of Jammu
and Kashmir politically.
The Union Government has provided
special support worth INR 80 billion to Jammu and Kashmir for
its development needs.
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March 1
|
The engineer injured in the earlier
reported grenade explosion in Batamaloo area of Srinagar on February
28, succumbed to his injuries.
CRPF personnel along with Jammu
and Kashmir Police are undergoing training in handling crowds
and mob violence that claimed over 100 lives in the Valley during
protests last summer.
Over 51,000 arms licenses have
been issued across Jammu and Kashmir during the past two years
and maximum of them were obtained by the people of Doda District.
The APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani was questioned on March 1 by the special cell of Delhi
Police in connection with a Hawala case in which one of
his close aides Ghulam Mohammed Bhat has been arrested.
Alleging the Security Forces for
the killing of Haji Nazir Ahmad of Kreeri, in an emailed statement,
HM spokesman, Ehsan Elahi warned, "The killers of Haji Nazir
will not be spared".
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March 2
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A JeM militant, identified as
Shabir Ahmad Khan alias Shabir Gujjar, was killed while an Army
Major received injuries in a day-long gunfight in Awantipora area
of Pulwama District.
Jammu and Kashmir Police authorities
have written to all Deputy Commissioners of Jammu region to direct
the people holding guns issued by five gun factories and shops
to deposit them at the concerned Police Station and seize over
2500 licenses issued by Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM, Mendhar
in Poonch District), Mukhtiar Choudhury,
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah
said that the State Government has received around 600 applications
from the kin of Kashmiri militants across the LoC for the latter’s
return and rehabilitation.
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March 3
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Police launched a manhunt for
150 wanted youth and arrested 12 youth under PSA in Kupwara District
for alleged involvement in stone pelting and street protests last
summer (2010).
Police arrested six persons in
Srinagar and Pampore of Pulwama District, while the parents of
15 youth were arrested in the Trehgam area of Kupwara District.
In the Handwara tehsil of Kupwara District Police records
maintain that 63 persons have been arrested so far and 20 of them
have been booked under the PSA, on charges of stone pelting out
of a list of 140.
The APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani was detained by Police at the Srinagar airport and put
under house arrest soon after his arrival from New Delhi.
CM Omar Abdullah said that militancy
and unemployment were the biggest challenges of his Government.
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March 4
|
Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested
senior APHC-M leader and DFP President, Shabir Ahmad, from Jamia
Masjid at Shopian town in Shopian District.
A militant, who had crossed over
to PoK, appeared before the Police in Doda District along with
his wife and three children.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
maintained that the separatists could not be given a veto vis-à-vis
the political roadmap to Kashmir dispute.
Regarding the spate of arbitrary
arrests in the Valley, he stated, "As far as arbitrary arrests
are concerned, I’ve no hesitation in saying that such arbitrary
arrests should not take place",
The Prime Minister, however, mentioned,
"I urge the Government of Pakistan to leave no stone unturned
to bring the culprits [26/11] to book.
Regarding revocation of AFSPA
and troop’s withdrawal, Prime Minister asserted that both the
Government and the Army would be happy if the situation became
conducive for the revocation of DAA.
JKLF Chief Mohammad Yaseen Malik
appeared in the Court of POTA in the Hawala case.
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March 6
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Two children, identified as Mohammad
Yasir (9) and Mohd Asid (6) residents of Pukhrni were injured
in a land mine explosion near the LoC in Pukhrni area of Nowshera
tehsil of Rajouri District.
A man, identified as Yashpaul
(40), sustained critical injuries after he was hit by a mortar
shell in Akhnoor area of Jammu District.
SFs arrested an OGW of LeT, identified
as Mohammad Aslam Malik, from Pul Doda in Doda District.
The CM Omar Abdullah said that
the Jammu and Kashmir Government had received over 600 applications
for a rehabilitation policy from relatives and parents of Kashmiri
militants in PoK who wants to return.
The applications have been filed
with Police chiefs of various Districts of Jammu and Kashmir during
the past 2 months. The State Government has formally announced
the rehabilitation policy on November 23, 2010.
The policy states that those who
have gone to PoK or Pakistan between January 1 1989 and December
31 2009 and their dependents will be eligible for consideration
under the policy. The militants would be allowed to enter only
through Wagah Border in Punjab and Salamabad and Chakan-Da-Bagh
LoC points in Jammu and Kashmir.
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March 7
|
Two Policemen were critically
injured after unidentified militants attacked them with the sharp
edged weapons at Yaripora village Kulgam District.
Rajinder Kumar (22) of Khandyal
in Jammu District sustained critical injuries after he steeped
over a land mine while grazing cattle in border village of Akhnoor
tehsil.
Unidentified militants blew up
a portion of a railway track at Soothoo, less than one kilometer
from Nowgam Railway station in Badgam District.
Three militants, including one
who worked as a communication expert with HM, were arrested near
Khan Market area of New Delhi for allegedly running a fake currency
racket.
DIG Central Kashmir Range, Abdul
Gani Mir dismissed the reports that Srinagar is a militancy free
zone, adding that around 50 militants are active in the Central
Kashmir Range.
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March 8
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The Security Forces repatriated
youth to Pakistani Army, who inadvertently crossed over to the
Indian side of the border from a forward outpost along LoC in
Poonch District.
In the Ganderbal Assembly Constituency
(Ganderbal District) of CM Omar Abdullah, the PSA was not used
harshly unlike other parts of the State. According to Police records
158 youth were arrested across the Ganderbal District on charges
of alleged stone throwing and protests in last summer. Almost
156 youth were bailed out in local Police Stations and rests of
the youth were bailed out by the Court. Nobody was booked under
PSA.
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March 9
|
Pakistan Rangers made another
attempt to infiltrate two militants into Jammu District from International
Border (IB) at Alla Mai De Kothe along Niki Tawi river in Jammu
District but the bid was foiled by SFs killing one militant and
injuring another.
Pakistan Army violated ceasefire
on the LoC at Shahpur Gountrian in Poonch District in a bid to
push militants to Indian side of the border. No casualties or
damage have been reported on the Indian side.
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March 10
|
Jammu and Kashmir Police killed
Sajjad Afghani alias Qari Hamaad the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of JeM
along with his bodyguard Umar Bilal in an encounter on the foreshore
road in the outskirts of the Srinagar. A cache of arms and ammunition
were recovered from the possession of the slain militants including
one AK-47 rifle, eight grenades, one UBGL and some magazines.
Three children Naza (10), Mashooq
Ahmad Khan (15) and Adil Ahmad Khan (7) were injured in Kupwara
District when the device they were playing with went off and exploded
in the compound of their house at Margee-Tikipora area of Lolab.
Awantipora Police recovered 50
kilograms of explosive material, 10 metres safety fuse and six
detonators from a medical shop at Ladhoo Pampore in Pulwama District.
Four persons were arrested in the case and a FIR 32/2011 under
Section 5 of Explosive Act has been registered against them.
Police arrested a LeT hawala
(illegal money transfer) operator Bashir Ahmed, resident of Nalla
Bharat area, from Doda and recovered INR 1.84 million from his
possession.
SFs during October 2008 operations
in Jammu and Kashmir found that four LeT militants killed in a
series of encounters were from Kerala.
The revelation set the Police
and later the NIA on a trail that showed how the LeT was recruiting
youths from Kerala, training them in Kerala and in Hyderabad of
Andhra Pradesh, and then using them for operations in Jammu and
Kashmir. Three years on, the NIA has retraced much of the trail
with information from two suspected LeT militants from Jammu and
Kashmir.
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March 11
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Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested
a HM militant, Aijaz Ahmed Hakim, at Bakhinar Nalla in Handwara
area of Kupwara District.
Police arrested JKLF Chairman,
Mohammad Yasin Malik, senior leaders of ‘moderate faction’ of
APHC, Bilal Gani Lone and Shahid-ul-Islam and Vice-Chairman JKLF,
Bashir Ahmad Bhat from the Maisuma area of Srinagar.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said that the
Union Government and the Jammu and Kashmir Government have chalked
out a joint strategy to keep the upcoming summer ‘good’ in the
Kashmir Valley and ensure normal activities.
The Centre’s Interlocutors on
Jammu and Kashmir said they would hold interactive sessions with
women of the State seeking their opinion on the Kashmir issue
as their voice was not heard enough during earlier meetings.
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March 12
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A ‘divisional commander’ of HuM
was killed with SFs in Sopore area of Baramulla District of Jammu
and Kashmir.
Two local militants belonging
to LeT were killed in an encounter with SFs at Lahend-Habdipora
in Shopian District.
A LeT militant, Wasim Ahmad Ganaie,
who was allegedly involved in the murder of two teenaged sisters
in Sopore town of Baramulla District, was killed by SFs.
A HM militant was arrested from
at Chinar Colony Pattan area of Baramulla District.
Army personnel arrested a suspected
person from the LoC when he was trying to cross over to PoK at
Nakkargate in Poonch District.
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March 13
|
Army’s Northern Command Chief
Lieutenant General K T Parnaik conducted a two-day tour of Kashmir
to take stock of the security situation in the Valley.
A Multi Agency Centre (MAC) set
up by the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi has reported that 489
top militants of LeT, HM and a couple of other lesser known militant
outfits were in full preparedness to try and cross into Jammu
and Kashmir from the LoC this summer.
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March 15
|
Grenade blasts and an explosion
of IED rocked the town of Sopore in Baramulla District.
SFs recovered four IEDs placed
by militants under a culvert in Pullnard-Dardpora village of Kupwara
District.
A person, identified as Mohammad
Abdullah Gujri, was arrested and fake currency notes worth INR
98,000 recovered from his possession in Kupwara District.
The Union Government's Interlocutors
on Jammu and Kashmir submitted their Sixth Report to Union Minister
of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram at New Delhi, specifically outlining
the problems being faced by women in the two decades-long violence
in the State.
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March 16
|
The annual report for 2010-11
of Ministry of Defence stated, "The continued infiltrations across
the LoC and the existence of terrorist camps across the India-Pakistan
border demonstrate the continuing ambivalence of Pakistan in its
attitude and approach to terrorist organisations".
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March 17
|
Carrying on with its operation
of removal of bunkers from civilian areas in Srinagar, CRPF removed
12 bunkers located in various areas. The CRPF personnel could
be seen removing the bunkers from places like Batamaloo, Karan
Nagar, Zaina Kadal, Saraf Kadal, Babademb, Rainawari, Nowhatta,
Islamia College, Hawal and Amar Singh College.
It has been reported that, a total
of 5255 stone pelters were arrested during the last one year of
which 5009 have been released.
GOC 15th Corps, Lieutenant
General, Syed Ata Hasnain said that Army has put in place anti-infiltration
surveillance system along the border in order to check infiltration
of militants from across the border.
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March 18
|
The Jammu and Kashmir Police claims
to have broken a major terror module led by an Imam of
a local mosque and two imprisoned self-styled commanders of HM
and killed one militant in Baramulla District.
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March 20
|
The DM of Jammu has ordered the
cancellation of licenses of three Gun firms to the State Home
Department and the Police authorities have seized 53 fake licenses
from Rajouri and nearly 70 from Doda, Poonch and Kathua Districts
of Jammu region.
1160 youth are wanted by Police
across the Kashmir Valley for their alleged role in the summer
unrest of 2010.
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March 21
|
One Assistant ASI was injured
when unidentified militants ambushed a SF patrol party with automatic
weapons at Sopore in Baramulla District.
Chief of the Army Staff, General
V K Singh, visited forward areas on LoC.
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March 22
|
The Chief of the Army Staff, General
V K Singh met jawans and other ranks on the LoC in the
frontier Districts of Kupwara and Bandipora after completing his
two-day visit to Kashmir valley.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah informed
the Legislative Assembly, that seventeen separatist leaders are
being provided with security cover while five others have refused.
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March 23
|
A HM militant, Mudassir Nazir
Lone, was arrested from the Batamaloo area of Srinagar District
by SOG.
39 bunkers of SFs have been removed
from the civilian areas in the State since October 2010, keeping
in view the present security scenario.
Stressing the need to engage Jammu
and Kashmir politically, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, exhorted
the separatist leadership to join the dialogue process initiated
by K-panel and come out with their view point without any hang-ups.
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March 24
|
The APHC-G Chairman, Syed Ali
Shah Geelani, was detained at Srinagar airport by the Police after
his return from New Delhi.
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March 25
|
The SIT in fake gun license racket
arrested three persons including an absconding judicial clerk
(Tanveer Ahmed Bhat) of Thana Mandi, Rajouri District and recovered
58 fake gun licenses from the state of Gujarat. Khem Raj Sharma
and Purshotam Singh, both residents of Drori village of Rajouri
District have also been arrested by the SIT during raids conducted
at different places.
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March 26
|
Jammu and Kashmir Government said
that 9,598 appointments have been made in the State's Police Department
in the last two years.
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March 27
|
SFs recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition from Pillan Wali area of Poonch District.
Former ‘commander’ of HM Imran
Rahi has floated a new political party with the name JKPP in Karan
Nagar area of Srinagar.
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March 28
|
SFs killed a foreign militant,
named ‘Chacha Talha’ of LeT during an encounter in Reban village
in Sopore area of Baramulla District. Some arms and ammunition
were also recovered from the possession of the killed militant.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police recovered
fake currency worth INR 25,000 and arrested two persons in this
connection at Mendhar in Poonch District.
Three Police teams of Mumbai,
Pune and Maharashtra reached Jammu, after effecting recovery of
a number of fake gun licenses from the youth of twin border Districts
of Rajouri and Poonch working in their cities as security guards.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda has launched
a Crime Website www.crimebranchjkpolice.nic.in at Crime Headquarters
in Jammu.
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March 29
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Army sources at New Delhi stated
that the infiltration attempts by Pakistan-based terrorist organisations
into Jammu and Kashmir increased slightly in 2010 with recorded
500 such bids as against 490 in 2009.
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March 30
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead
a ruling NC leader, Ghulam Mohiuddin (53), and injured his wife
Haseena at Pinglish in Tral area of Pulwama District.
The Government ordered transfer
and attachment of absconding SDM of Mendhar in Poonch District,
Mukhtiar Ahmad Choudhary, for his involvement in fake gun license
racket.
It has been decided that 12 more
bunkers of SFs would be removed from the Srinagar city.
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March 31
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Police has claimed to have identified
the killers of NC halqa President Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Bhat resident
of Pinglish Tral. The NC leader was killed by militants. Highly
reliable inputs suggest that Ghulam Mohi-ud-din has been killed
by Sajad Ahmad alias Bale Bale resident of Pinglish divisional
commander of HM outfit South Kashmir and two of his associates
with one of them identified as Shabir Ahmad resident of Tral.
The State Government in a written
reply told the Legislative Council that a total of 13, 215 civilians
have been killed in violence since 2009.
In reply to another question regarding
withdrawal/ repeal of AFSPA-1990 and PSA it was disclosed that
the Government has constituted two committees one each for Jammu
and Kashmir regions, respectively, to look into the areas where
from AFSPA could be withdrawn.
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April 1
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DGP, Kuldeep Khoda, stated that
while nearly 45 per cent reduction in the militancy related incidents
has been recorded in the first quarter of 2011, over 300 to 350
terrorists are still active in the Jammu and Kashmir State.
The DGP stated that in 2010, nearly
450-500 militants were operating in the State. There have been
reports of nearly 100 odd more militants having infiltrated into
this side during the year, whereas, the number of militants killed
during 2010 were 232.
The DGP further disclosed that
during first three months of this year three SFs personnel including
two Army jawans, were killed during anti-militancy operations
whereas, last year (from January 1 to March 31), 19 SFs personnel
lost their lives.
Mr Khoda disclosed that a total
30 militants were arrested by the SFs during first quarter of
this year while during the corresponding period of 2010, total
16 militants were arrested in the State.
On coming Panchayat elections,
Kuldeep Khoda said where ever the demand arises as per the situation,
additional police personnel from Armed and IRP battalions will
be placed there.
Meanwhile, State Revenue Minister
Raman Bhalla said 46 fake PRCs have been detected in the last
few years and the Government has already constituted JK State
Subject Commission to look into the issue.
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April 3
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SFs killed a ‘district commander’
of HM, identified as Tariq Hussain alias Abu Zaid of Dara Chapra
of Doda District, at Thama Keller area of Shopian District.
SFs recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition from a forest area in Mahore tehsil of Reasi
District.
In a reaction to massive popular
participation in 2008 Assembly Election, militant outfits like
LeT and HM have warned the people in areas like Shopian District,
Sopore in Baramulla District and Bandipora District against taking
part in the upcoming Panchayat Polls in the State beginning in
later part of April.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah has ordered release of a teenager Faizan (14), who
was detained under the PSA for his alleged involvement in stone-pelting
during the 2010 summer unrest, on humanitarian grounds.
The Lieutenant General Syed Ata
Hasnain, General Officer Commanding of Srinagar based 15 Corps,
said that the presence of Army in the Valley is needed as there
is an "existential" border threat, even as he ruled out a military
solution to Kashmir issue
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April 5
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A ‘Divisional Commander’ of HM,
Sajad Ahmad Dar alias Bale Bale was killed by SFs during an encounter
at Dadsar-Tral in Pulwama District. A Sub-Inspector of Police,
Stazin Norboo and an Army trooper were also killed in the encounter.
A cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession
of the slain militant.
A senior Police Officer, Pervaiz
Ahmad, escaped unhurt when militants hurled a grenade at his vehicle
near Islamia College in Hawal area of Srinagar city.
Ahead of Panchayat (village
level local self government institution) polls beginning from
April 13, unknown assailants set ablaze a Panchayat building at
Galoora Handwara in Kupwara District.
Police arrested two OGWs of HM,
identified as Mudasir Nazir resident of Kachwa-Chandoosa and Abdul
Hamid Mir resident of Kreeri Pattan, both in Baramulla District.
A number of the militants seeking
return from Pakistan and PoK to Jammu and Kashmir after over two
decades has crossed 800.
A 14-year-old alleged stone-thrower
was released from Kathua's Central Jail in Jammu on State Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah's orders.
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April 6
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Police arrested two OGWs of HM
and recovered a large quantity of explosives and ammunition at
their behest in Mahore area of Reasi District.
The Police later destroyed two
HM hideouts based on the information provided by the arrested
OGWs.
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April 7
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CRPF and Police on April 7 recovered
10 kilograms of explosives besides other material from Gandoh
area, bordering Himachal Pradesh, of Doda District.
Security Forces neutralized a
LeT hideout during a search operation at Gani Kotli forests in
Mendhar tehsil (revenue unit) of Poonch District.
Jammu and Kashmir High Court ordered
a 15-year-old boy Tawseef Hussain Bhat’s release after quashing
his detention under the Public Safety Act.
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April 8
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Unidentified militants killed
Jamiat-e-Ahlihadith leader Moulvi Showkat Ahmad Shah (55), a liberal
voice who had denounced stone-pelting and was engaged with Centre's
interlocutors, by triggering an IED near a mosque gate before
Friday’s prayer in Maisuma area, adjacent to Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
Within hours of an IED blast killing
Shah, Army intercepted a message from Pakistan-based terror group
LeT Spokesperson Abdullah Gaznavi, purportedly directing a local
media person to disseminate information that the attack was carried
out by Hindu groups.
The US State Department’s Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 stated that separatists
and terrorists of Jammu and Kashmir committed serious human rights
abuses including killing Armed Forces Personnel, Police, Government
officials, and civilians.
Kushtia Councilor of Meherpur
Municipality, Mizanur Rahman Ripon who was severely injured in
a bomb attack on April 1, died at Apollo Hospital in the Capital
city of Dhaka.
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April 9
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Police arrested two cadres, Eusuf
Ali (28) and Ershad Ali (25) of outlawed Purbo Bangla Communist
Party (PBCP)-Sharbahara Faction from Nuruddinpur area of Sujanagar
Sub-District of Pabna District.
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April 10
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Militants shot dead Sajad Ahmad
Dar (22) in Kralteng area of Sopore in Baramulla District of Jammu
and Kashmir.
Militants set on fire a Panchayat
(village level local self government institution) Building in
Machipora village of Handwara area in Kupwara District.
General Officer Commanding (GOC)
of Kupwara based 28th Infantry Division Major General S K Chakravorty
said that, the militants will try to infiltrate any time and the
Army is ready to tackle them. GOC Chakravorty said the Army has
equipped its units with high-tech devices to check any attempts
by infiltrators to enter Indian Territory. He also informed that
his division has three difficult sectors of infiltration to cater,
namely Machil Sector, Tangdhar Sector and Keran Sector, all in
Kupwara District.
Top Kashmiri separatist leaders
refused the Government’s offer to provide them security in the
wake of senior cleric Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah’s assassination.
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April 11
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Police recovered a consignment
of explosive material from Jabbar forests in Mahore area of Reasi
District, belonging to HM outfit.
SFs arrested an activist, Mohammad
Younis Bhatt of the hardline APHC-Geelani from Anantnag District
and recovered one AK-47.
Reacting to Union Home Secretary
G K Pillai’s statement that HM had been almost vanquished, the
outfit rejected the claims saying HM’s armed strength was intact.
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April 12
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Former SDM of Mendhar in Poonch
District, Choudhary Mukhtiar, who had gone underground as his
involvement figured in issuance of fake gun license was arrested
by a SIT of the Police from the house of his brother-in-law at
Dalpatian Mohalla in Jammu more than two months after he went
racket.
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April 13
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An estimated 79.22 per cent voters
exercised their franchise in the first out of 16 phases of Panchayat
elections being held after a gap of over four decades in Jammu
and Kashmir.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir
rejected a poll boycott by Hurriyat hardliners as the majority
voted in the first phase, being held on non-party basis.
A 25-year-old youth was arrested
on April 13 and fake currency with value of INR 800,000 was recovered
from his possession in Poonch District.
BSF arrested a Pakistani national,
Ahmed Ali (25) on the International Border at forward village
Jagwal in RS Pura Sector Jammu District.
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April 14
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Jammu and Kashmir Government has
slapped second consecutive PSA against DeM Chief Asiya Andrabi
and lodged her in Kote Bhalwal jail in the context of last year’s
summer agitation.
Jammu & Kashmir Police arrested
a Delhi based hawala (illegal money transfer) conduit Hira Lal
from a hotel in Srinagar with fake currency notes in the second
week of April.
The GOC, Romeo Force, RR K A S
Bhullar said in Poonch that militant training camps still exist
in Pakistan which supports infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir.
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April 15
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Unidentified militants have allegedly
shot dead a woman, identified as Hasina Begum (40) candidate for
Panchayat elections at Karpora in Pakherpora area of Charar-e-Sharief
in Budgam District.
SFs recovered a cache of ammunition
and explosive along the LoC at Keri Sector in Rajouri District.
A HM hideout was neutralised in the operation.
Police arrested another Mohammad
Qasim, a Senior Assistant, posted at Thanna Mandi in Rajouri District
in fake gun license racket.
Meanwhile, ruling out reduction
of troops in Kashmir, GOC 15 Corps, Lieutenant General Syed Ata
Hasnain said that terror infrastructure is still intact across
the border in PoK where militants are waiting to infiltrate into
the Valley.
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April 16
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Two BSF troopers Manoj Kumar and
S.M. Patel were injured when an IED went off near the LoC in Sinagali
area of Poonch District of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police arrested three alleged
killers of Maulana Showkat Shah, Javed Ahmed, Nisar Ahmed and
Abdul Ghali Dhar. The three belonged to the former Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen
outfit.Police further claimed that the conspiracy of the attack
was master-minded jointly by incarcerated, Dr Qasim Fuktoo, and
Saut-ul-Haq. Dr. Fuktoo is also the husband of Syeda Asiya Andrabi,
chief of DeM.
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April 17
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Police carried out thorough searches
in Central Jail Srinagar and recovered 7 cell phones, 15 SIM cards
and important documents from inmates.
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April 18 |
An Army trooper, Sanjeev Patil,
was injured in a mine explosion at forward village of Kantar in
Mendhar tehsil of Poonch District.
SFs detected and neutralised a
powerful five kilogrammes weight pressure cooker IED, filled with
RDX, at Bhati Dhar in Mendhar area of Poonch District. The search
operation was launched following a specific input that a consignment
meant for LeT militants has been dumped there.
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April 19 |
SFs arrested HM militant, identified
as Hilal Ahmad Palla alias Umer, from Mamoosa at Pattan area of
Baramulla District. One AK rifle, two AK magazines, 50 rounds
of live AK ammunition, two hand grenades, and a pouch were recovered
from the possession of the arrested militant.
Reports indicate that, top Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and HM militants have started moving towards mountains,
including Pir Panjal Range, ahead of the summer facing threats
to their lives in low lying belt as local people have started
refusing shelter to them. Habib Gujjar group of the LeT outfit,
which was having strength of five, has reportedly left Keshwan
and proceeded towards Warwan and Dachchan in Kishtwar District.
Abu Moosa, a 'divisional commander' of the LeT, who was instrumental
in the killing of two jawans (troopers) of Territorial Army (TA)
at Gool in Ramban District few months back, has also deserted
Gool and fled to Pir Panjal Range.
Jammu and Kashmir Police have
blamed jailed Muslim League Chairperson Ashiq Hussain Fakhtoo,
former Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen chief Abdul Gani Dar and former militants
Javed Ahmad Munshi and Nissar Ahmad Khan for the murder of Jamiat-e-Ahlihadees
chief Showkat Ahmad Shah.
The Central Government's interlocutors
on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are likely to recommend more powers
for the state to strengthen its special status under the Constitution.
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April 20 |
Two OGWs, namely Shahnaz Ahmad
Mir and Ghulam Qadir Mir, residents of Dadsara Tral, owing allegiance
to HM were arrested by Police from Chandrigam-Awantipora area
of Pulwama District. One pistol, two pistol magazines, one AK
47 rifle body, seven hand grenades and 135 rounds were recovered
from their possession of arrested.
Troops neutralised a militant
hideout in the Hatmullah forests of Kupwara District. An UBGL
with six rounds, three hand-grenades, four AK rifle magazines,
50 rounds for Pika guns and a tape-recorder were recovered from
the site.
The Interlocutors said the intelligentsia
in Jammu and Kashmir was against the division of the State on
communal lines but favoured strengthening the special status under
Article 370 and devolution of powers to the regions and sub-regions.
The NIA has taken over the probe
into the hawala case of Jammu and Kashmir in which Ghulam
Mohammad Bhat, a close aide of Syed Ali Shah Geelani was arrested
under Unlawful Activities (Preventive) Act in January.
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April 21 |
SFs eliminated two dreaded LeT
militants, Mohammad Sultan Bhat ('district commander' of LeT)
alias Noman, resident of Naik Mohalla, Saranwa in Kishtwar
District and Jaan Mohammad of Chatroo in Doda District, who happened
to be close associates of Lashkar 'divisional commander' Salman
alias Habib Gujjar alias Jameel in Kishtwar. However, two
more LeT militants including Salman himself and Mohammad Ishaq
Lone have managed to escape from the encounter site.
Recoveries made from the site
of encounter included one AK-47 rifle with two magazines, one
grenade and a large quantity of ammunition and explosive material.
Salman alias Habib Gujjar was instrumental in a series of subversive
activities in Kishtwar District.
The hawala racket, was
busted by Ramban Police, that originated from Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK) and channelised through Aijaz Ahmed Sheikh, a resident
of Dulligam and settled in Chakoti, PoK since 1997 where he was
operating as a top 'commander' of HM. Of three hawala operators
captured by Police, one was Sheikh's brother-in-law Barkat Ali
Dar. The seized hawala money was meant for militants and
their families.
SFs recovered two Underbarrel
Grenade Launcher (UBGL) grenades and one Chinese grenade from
the roof of Panchayat Building from to Khari in Banihal of Ramban
District ahead of the Panchayat elections.
Seventy nine percent voting was
recorded in third phase of Panchayat elections. While, polling
were differed in Purmandal block in Samba District, Nunar in Ganderbal
District and Chadoora in Budgam District.
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April 22 |
Police have arrested two police
personnel, identified as Mahroof Ahmed, a Follower in Police Department
and Parvez Ahmed, a SPO with Commando Group, both residents of
Mendhar, along with Liaquat Hussain of Balakot who is with 156
Territorial Army (TA) as a jawan, for their involvement
in militancy and recovered two Pakistan made pistols from their
possession in Mendhar town of Poonch District.
A team of Loran Police and SFs
recovered a cache of explosive material from Chikri Ban in Loran
forests of Poonch District. A hideout of the militants was neutralised
in the operation.
It has been revealed that Barkat
Ali Dar, who was arrested for allegedly channeling or "promoting
militancy" on April 21, in connection with hawala money is the
uncle of a Congress legislator.
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April 23 |
An Army trooper was killed in
an encounter with militants inside a natural cave at village Hajiwari
in Lani in upper reaches of Gool in Ramban District.
Pakistan Army resorted to cease-fire
violation at Durga Ban area of Poonch sector late in the night
by resorting to firing on forward Indian positions to facilitate
infiltration by the militants.
Another infiltration attempt of
the militants, aided and abetted by Pakistan Army, was made in
Banbat area of Poonch sector in the same night. However, the troops
thwarted both the intrusion bids.
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April 23-24 |
SFs shot dead two LeT militants,
including Mohammad Aiyaz Malik alias Abu Moosa, a 'divisional
commander' of the outfit who had been operating in Banihal, Gool
and other parts of Ramban District for past more than 15 years.
An intercept of a Pakistani militant, Mehmoodi, presently operating
from Muzaffarabad in PoK and his conversation with Abu Moosa gave
the SFs clues about the location of the militant leading to his
killing along with his associate.
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April 24 |
Militants shot dead a resident
of Rafiabad area in Kreeri area of Baramulla District. The victim
was identified as Mohammad Ashraf Lone.
A militant, identified as Nissar
Ahmad Wani, was arrested by Police at Sumbal in Bandipora District
along with a pistol with magazine and seven rounds.
Police detained two more persons,
including a woman SPO, for their links with the militants and
reported assistance in smuggling of weapons from across the LoC
in Mendhar sector of Poonch District.
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April 25 |
Two Policemen were shot dead and
another injured by militants near a Police Station at Nowgam area
in Srinagar.
A HM militant, Identified as Showkat
Ahmad Ganai alias Mudasir, who had returned from Pakistan
last week and was on a "special mission" to set up a militant
network in Srinagar, was arrested by Police.
Over 80 per cent turnout was registered
in the fourth phase of panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
A soldier identified as Kailash
Chand, belonging to Unit-58 RR (27 Rajput) in an encounter with
terrorists in Ramban District.
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April 26 |
Pakistan Army resorted to ceasefire
violation on the LoC at Shahpur Doda in Poonch Sector.
The IG BSF, Baljit Singh claimed
in Srinagar, that militant in PoK are desperate to infiltrate
into the valley.
GOC, 25th Infantry Division, Major
General Om Prakash said that as per intelligence reports, there
are about 42 training camps across LoC. 450 odd militants are
lodged in camps and launching pads, and staged for infiltration.
"The backbone of the militancy
in South of Pir Panchal has been broken," the GOC asserted, adding
that the rest will be wiped out in due course of time.
On Pakistan Army's role in keeping
check over infiltration from across the border, Major General
Prakash said, "We respect ceasefire agreement between the two
nations but there were several ceasefire violations and exchange
of fire last year. However, we noticed now that alertness of troops
along borders has foiled infiltration attempts."
Court granted bail to former Sub
Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Mendhar, Mukhtiyar Ahmed Choudhary,
Ranjit Singh and Qasim Hussain who are allegedly involved in fake
gun- license scam.
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April 27 |
Principal Sessions Judge Udhampur,
A K Sharma awarded life-imprisonment, under Section 302/34 RPC
to Mohammad Hussain, Mushtaq Ahmed and Gul Mohammad, all residents
of Ramnagar tehsil under Udhampur District for killing
Arshad Begum and Amina on August 2, 2001.
A Court in Srinagar has extended
the Police remand of three persons made accused in Moulana Showkat
Ahmad killing case by seven days.
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April 28 |
A SRTC driver, Ghulam Jeelani
Bhat, who was injured on April 25 during stone pelting on Panchayat
elections staff in Baramulla District, succumbed to the injuries.
JKLF Chairman, Mohammad Yasin
Malik, was arrested by Srinagar Police.
In order to avail 2010 special
surrender and rehabilitation policy, 725 Kashmiri families have
approached the Jammu and Kashmir Government to facilitate the
homecoming of their relatives who crossed over to PoK during 1989-2009
to embrace militancy.
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April 29 |
HM 'chief commander' Syed Salahuddin
dismisses reports of floating a political party but says that
Syed Shah Geelani's APHC represents their goals and ideologies.
A militant, identified as Zamaan
Shah, putting up in the house of a civilian Hakim Shah at village
Churung in Thanna Mandi area of Rajouri District has confessed
himself as Pakistan based HM 'commander', who was planning to
revive activities of the outfit in the border District of Rajouri
and other parts of the State.
A new set of guidelines have been
framed for SFs deployed in J&K to handle civilian protests by
using non-lethal weapons.
For the second consecutive day
shops and business establishments remained closed in Maisuma and
adjoining areas against the arrest of JKLF chairman, Mohammad
Yasin Malik. Some protest demonstrations were also held in Maisuma
and the nearby areas against the arrest of JKLF chairman.
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April 30 |
Nine blocks of J&K will go to
Panchayat polls in the fifth phase.
Militants shot dead a civilian,
Shamsuddin Mir alias Jana (25), outside his residence at Chanakhan
in Sopore town of Baramulla District.
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May 1 |
Two Army jawans of 55 RR
were injured in an encounter with militants in Inder village of
Pulwama District.
SFs arrested two top militants
of LeT, identified as Zulfiqar Ahmed and Aniece, from Snehi area
Surankote in Poonch District.
The militant commanders of LeT
and HM outfits have used a new modus operandi to smuggle weapons
into the Indian territory from LoC in Mendhar sector of Poonch
District. Official sources confirmed that the women, putting up
in the villages across the fencing in Mendhar sector of Poonch,
had helped the militants pick up the consignments of weapons from
near the LoC.
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May 2 |
Militants triggered a car bomb
blast at Birma Pul, about one kilometer short of Udhampur town,
on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, targeting an Army vehicle
carrying Major General D S Pathania, Commandant, Northern Command
Hospital. While a civilian was killed and seven others were injured
in the attack, the Army official escaped unhurt.
Security Forces (SFs) arrested
two HM militants, identified as Ishtiaq Ahmad Wani (28) of Goshbugh-Pattan
and Mohammad Amin Khan (29), resident of Bela Buniyar in Uri of
Baramulla District. Police officials said that two militants were
arrested at Indergam village of Pattan area in Baramulla District.
Ishtiyaq was earlier affiliated
to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen HuM militant outfit and had been a
close associate of Basharat Saleem alias Atif of Sopore.
Three HM sympathizers, identified
as Mukhtar Ahmad Kumar, Bashir Ahmad Wagay residents of Srinagar
and Mustafa of Tikker in Kupwara District were arrested from TRC
Chowk in Kupwara District.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Doda,
Ashok Kumar rejected the bail application of Over Ground Worker
of LeT - Bashir Ahmed, a resident of Nallah Bharat in Doda District.
A local court in Srinagar has
extended the Police remand of three accused in Moulana Showkat
Ahmad killing case by 10 days.
GOC of Srinagar based 15th Corps
Lieutenant General S A Hasnain said militants in PoK will increase
their attempts to infiltrate into the Valley over the next two
months but asserted that they will be in for a "surprise", Against
the backdrop of heightened Chinese activity along the Ladakh border,
the Srinagar Leh National Highway has been widened to allow passage
of T 72 tanks.
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May 3 |
SFs neutralized a militant hideout
in forest area of Affen-Warnow in the Kupwara District.
Principal Sessions Judge Kathua,
Jang Bhadur Singh Jamwal, awarded death sentence to two militants,
identified as Mohammad Shabir and Raj Din of HM outfit, for killing
a Police informer in 2002.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Chairman
of APHC-G stated, "Osama was a shaheed, he died defending Muslims,
a symbol of resistance against US oppression".
Tanveer Ahmed, the militant who
was living with the false identity of Zamaan Shah in the Thanna
Mandi area of Rajouri District revealed that he was not only in
touch with LeT and HM 'commanders' within the State but in different
other cities also including Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
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May 4 |
SFs neutralised a militant hideout
in Arang area of Ramban District.
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May 5 |
Pakistan Army resorted to heavy
arms firing at several forward Indian posts of Krishna Ghati Sector
in Poonch District in an attempt to push militants into the Indian
side of the LoC.
GOC-in-C of the Northern Command,
Lieutenant General K T Parnaik, said that Army and intelligence
agencies are having all the required details of the terrorist
camps operating in PoK.
Police has put APHC-G Chairman
Syed Ali Shah Geelani under house arrest fearing trouble as the
separatist leader was going to lead the funeral prayers in absentia
for Osama bin Laden at Batamaloo in Srinagar District.
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May 6 |
Kulgam Police achieved a major
success on May 6 when it unearthed a hawala racket involving raising
and distribution of money for various militant activities in the
District.
SFs have neutralised a major hideout
and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition from a hideout
located in the dense forests of Trehgam area in Kupwara District.
SFs recovered a large consignment
of explosive material from a hideout of HM outfit at Lapri Top
near Uchwa Gali in Arnas area of Reasi District.
APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani led hundreds of people in funeral prayers for al-Qaeda
'Chief' Osama bin Laden at Batamaloo in Srinagar. Nearby, a large
gathering of lawyers and staff of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court
offered prayers for Osama on the Court's premises. Top moderate
leader Shabir Shah also led people in prayers at Sarai Bala, across
from Lal Chowk.
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May 7 |
SFs neutralised a militant hideout
and recovered a large number of arms and ammunition from Haftrada
forest in Kupwara District.
Acting on specific information
about the presence of the militants, who barged into the house
of a civilian, SFs laid cordon around a house in Mankot-Nar area
of Poonch. Two militants escaped from the site during the operation.
SFs launched a cordon and search
operation to track down a group of three militants in Bafliaz
Dorga area of Poonch District. However, no arrests have been made
so far.
After the arrest of a Pakistani
spy, Tanveer Ahmed alias Zamaan Shah in Thanna Mandi area
of Rajouri District, another Pakistani militant, who had been
living in Sidhra area near Jammu city posing himself as a Rajouri
youth, has gone underground and. He is reported to have executed
May 2 car IED blast in Udhampur targeting a senior Army officer.
The Pakistani militant's wife, Shabana and another close associate,
identified as Adbul Mujeed have been arrested by Udhampur Police
on a lead obtained from a car dealer of New Delhi from whom the
militant had purchased car.
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May 8 |
APHC-G Chairman, Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, called for a shutdown in Kashmir valley on May 14 demanding
release of political prisoners and youths.
The central intelligence agencies
suggested that nearly 80 hard-core militants of LeT and HM are
waiting to cross the IB into India through Jammu and Kashmir.
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May 9 |
Police arrested four more persons
in connection with a car IED blast at Udhampur in which a senior
Army officer had a narrow escape.
Police have unearthed a module
of militant outfits, which was engaged in providing SIM cards
of different mobile companies to the militants in Surankote and
other parts of Poonch District for past quite sometime. Police
has arrested six members of the gang.
Pakistan-based terrorist outfits
successfully infiltrated around 20-30 terrorists into the state
in the first nine days of May alone.
The LeT and HM, finding lack of
volunteers and local support in the State, and even guides to
escort the infiltrating parties into Indian Territory, have revised
compensation for the local guides, who are now being offered nearly
INR1.5 lakh for each successful infiltration as compared to INR
50,000 given earlier.
Inter-twining between Kashmiri
militancy and al-Qaeda is visible from the interrogation details
of many Pakistani prisoners who were in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion
of being al-Qaida and Taliban members.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
the Government has received nearly 700 applications from local
militants in PoK, who want to renounce violence and join the mainstream.
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May 10 |
A militant shot and injured a
Sarpanch candidate, identified as Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Chopan, at
Machipora-Zainageer at Sopore in Baramulla District.
SFs arrested five militants of
HM, along with arms and ammunition from Pattan in Baramulla District.
LeT 'commander' named as 'D' ,
charge sheeted by FBI on the 26/11 Mumbai attack is now identified
as Muuzzammil Bhat (from Jammu and Kashmir was involved in Chittisinghpora
massacre in Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of President Bill Clinton's
visit to India in March 2000. He was also a handler of David Coleman
Headley.
Minister of State for Defence
M M Pallam Raju has said India is fully prepared to fight militants
trying to infiltrate into the country.
An unnamed Home Ministry official
met senior Jammu & Kashmir officials to discuss the State Government's
rehabilitation policy for former militants stranded in PoK.
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May 11 |
SFs neutralised a HM hideout and
recovered a cache of explosives in a forest area of Laribal in
Pulwama District.
The Union Government will soon
take up the issue of return of Kashmiri militants who are in Pakistan
and PoK and want to return under rehabilitation policy announced
by the State Government in 2010.
The Interlocutors are to submit
their eighth comprehensive report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram
in New Delhi in the next few days.
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May 12 |
The State Cabinet accorded approval
to the extension of benefit of cash compensation of INR 4 lakh
(excluding ex-gratia of INR 1 lakh) to the next of kin of surrendered
militants killed in the militancy related incidents.
Setting in motion the new surrender
policy, Jammu and Kashmir Government sent a list of 20 youths,
currently in PoK, to the Centre seeking their return to the State
and their rehabilitation.
An Army trooper was killed when
militants opened fire on a search party that was carrying out
ambush in Dorusa village of Lolab area in Kupwara District.
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May 13 |
Militants attacked a CRPF security
camp in Karan Nagar area of Srinagar by lobbing two grenades but
no damage was done in the twin blasts.
The SIT arrested a Government
official, identified as Yasir Qureshi, resident of Saaj (Rajouri)
in fake arms gun license racket and seized a large quantity of
incriminating documents including 22 fake NOCs of fake gun licenses
from his possession.
Militants in Jammu and Kashmir
have adopted a new strategy to divert attention of SFs from their
'top commanders' by spreading false news of their death.
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May 14 |
A BSF trooper, identified as Jai
Kishan of Gurgaon, Haryana was killed at the Budhwar post in Nikowal
Area of Arnia sub sector, due to heavy shelling by Pakistani Rangers
on forward Indian positions in the IB.
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May 15 |
The firing caused a strong protest
from the BSF at a flag meeting held at Octroi post in Suchetgarh.
SFs at all forward posts of RS Pura, Suchetgarh and Arnia carried
out searches along the IB but no movement of any infiltrator was
spotted.
The GOC 15 Corps Lieutenant General
Syed Ata Hasnain feared that infiltration might increase in the
coming days from across the LoC.
Centre's Interlocutors on Jammu
and Kashmir arrived on a six-day visit to the State.
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May 16 |
A civilian, identified as Abdul
Gani (50), was abducted and killed by three LeT militants in Kawath
area of Chatroo in Kishtwar District on May 16.
Separately, a LeT militant, identified
as Abu Maad, was killed and a trooper injured in an encounter
in Zaloora village in Sopore area of Baramulla District.
Police charge sheeted eight persons,
including former HM 'chief commander', Mohammad Ahsan Dar, in
the murder of a contractor in Pattan area of Baramulla District
in February, 2011.
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May 17 |
Militants killed a Policeman,
identified as Mohammad Shafi Dar, at Tujjar Sharief in Sopore
area of Baramulla District.
Also, a Panchayat election
candidate, identified as Mohammad Maqbool Bhat (65), was shot
at and injured at Hajam Mohalla in Sopore.
Separately, militants attacked
the residence of a former Bandipora MLA and ex-Minister Usman
Majeed. No one was hurt in the brief exchange of gunfight.
Further, an Army patrol escaped
unhurt in a mine explosion in the forward area of Balakote sub-sector
of Mendhar in Poonch District.
Police arrested four persons,
including three ex-militants, identified as Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat
alias Muza, belonging to LeT, Irfan Ahmad Gazi alias Raju,
a HM militant and Azad Ahmad Wani, a Pakistan trained militant,
in connection with drug peddling in Baramulla District.
Meanwhile, the three-member team
of interlocutors for Kashmir has told the Centre that the Omar
Abdullah Government's ''mishandling of situation'' was responsible
for 2010 summer's violence in which more than 100 people were
killed in firing by the Security Forces (SFs).
The militants abducted and subsequently
killed a civilian in Kishtwar District.
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May 18 |
SFs arrested 10 OGWs from different
villages for helping LeT and HM militants in Kishtwar District.
Centre's Interlocutors said they
were working closely with the State Government to ensure that
calm and stability prevails in the State.
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May 19 |
The Pakistani Rangers targeted
Indian positions by opening unprovoked firing on the forward Indian
posts at Kote Kubba in Arnia sub sector in Jammu District twice.
The BSF exercised restraint in retaliation. No casualties or damage
was reported in firing by the Rangers.
Police placed APHC-G Chairman,
Syed Ali Shah Geelani under house arrest in his Hyderpora residence
in Budgam District.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court
canceled detention orders under PSA against six persons including
chief of Dukhteran-e-Milat Asiya Andrabi and senior APHC-G leader
Abdul Ahad Para.
Out of 23 names short-listed by
the State Intelligence agencies for return from Pakistan and PoK
under Rehabilitation Policy of the Government, clearance of 18
has been withheld by RAW and Intelligence Bureau, while giving
nod to return of five militants.
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May 20 |
SFs arrested a LeT militant, identified
as Zabbar, who was instrumental in the killing of a civilian (Abdul
Gani) at Kawath in Chatroo area of Kishtwar District on May 16.
Separately, two suspects, identified
as Abdul Qayoom Khan and Muzaffar Ahmad Rather, were arrested
and some arms and ammunition were recovered from their possession
at Bahrampora in Pattan area of Baramulla District.
Authorities have decided not to
allow the proposed rally of APHC-M at Eidgah in Srinagar in view
of killing of Maulvi Showkat Ahmad Shah last month.
The Centre's interlocutors on
Jammu and Kashmir are hopeful of the APHC-G joining the dialogue
process.
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May 21 |
60 RR and 163 Infantry Battalion
launched a search operation in Marhota area of Kotranka tehsil
in Rajouri District and busted a militant hideout, Army officials
said. They recovered one pistol, one magazine, five China-made
hand grenades and five UBGL grenades, besides some other material.
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May 22 |
SFs arrested two OGWs of LeT from
Bebli village in Doda District. The OGWs were identified as Farooq
Ahmed, brother of LeT 'commander' Hurera and Zafarullah Malik.
SFs defused a landmine on the
International Border at Malu Chak in Samba District.
APHC-M Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq
may have had a secret meeting with the head of ISI, Lieutenant
General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, in Europe.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir,
Dr. Asgar Samoon stated that the separatists want to push the
children and youth of the Valley to stone pelting in order to
create disturbance and law and order problem.
APHC-M stated that it is ready
for a negotiated settlement of the Kashmir issue with the Centre.
Mirwaiz said that the APHC-M wants a peaceful resolution of the
issue through talks among India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris and
is willing to discuss various alternatives put forth so far.
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May 23 |
A LeT militant was killed while
three others were trapped, one of them in an injured condition,
after an encounter with SFs at village Soni, north of Dera Ki
Gali between Thanna Mandi and Bafliaz in Poonch District.
SFs neutralised a LeT hide-out
of slain 'commander' Abu Moosa at Waomal Morha in Banihal area
of Ramban District and recovered 6.5 kilograms of RDX, one Under
Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL), 15 UBGL grenades, 108 AK rounds,
four detonators and 10 meters cortex wire.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
said there were some intelligence inputs suggesting infiltration
to Jammu and Kashmir from across the border but the number was
"debatable".
Two letters threatening that LeT
will blow up key temples in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh on June
5 to avenge the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden were
received by Police in Phagwara (Punjab).
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May 24 |
One Pakistani infiltrator, identified
as Riyaz Mehmood, resident of Julaka village in Pakistan's Sialkote
District, was arrested by BSF near a border outpost close to IB
in Jammu District.
SFs continued search for three
top LeT militants at Dera Ki Gali in Poonch District. During searches
SFs recovered one AK-56 rifle, four magazines, 60 rounds, three
Chinese grenades, one wireless set, one dairy, one pouch and incriminating
documents of LeT outfit.
Following recent attack on a Pakistan
Navy installation, BSF and Army has sounded an alert along the
Districts of Rajouri and Poonch.
The BSF will soon deploy women
troopers along Jammu and Kashmir's border with Pakistan to check
the smuggling of arms and narcotics.
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May 25 |
A LeT militant, identified as
Mohammad Ishaq Lone alias Munazil, was killed and a 'district
commander', Habib Gujjar alias Abu Salman, was injured
in an encounter with the SFs at Loharpura forests in Doda District,
bordering Keshwan forests of Kishtwar District.
The SFs also arrested, Saima Bano
(24), a female associate of Munazil, who was on the run along
with Habib Gujjar since May 16, after the killing of a civilian
Abdul Gani at Kuwath in Keshwan area. Recoveries included two
Chinese grenades, two AK rifle magazines, 10 rounds of AK, one
pouch, one dagger, batteries, diaries and incriminating documents
of the LeT outfit.
A LeT militant was killed in an
encounter with the SFs Shatigam Ganai Mohalla in Handwara of Kupwara
District. Recoveries made included one AK rifle, two magazines,
one wireless set and a GPS.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah confirmed
that 30 to 40 militants have entered into the State during recent
infiltration attempts. Abdullah stated that the Intelligence agencies
have confirmed the infiltration.
Surankote and Bafliaz in Poonch
District and Marmat in Doda District recorded over 80 per cent
turnout in 11th phase of Panchayat elections. There were
also reports of complete poll boycott in Dooru village in Baramulla
District, native place of APHC-G Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
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May 26 |
SFs killed two JeM militants including
a 'divisional commander' Qari Zubair in an encounter at Keller
area of Shopian in Baramulla District.
SFs recovered the body of a LeT
militant from Shatigam Ganai village of Handwara in Kupwara District.
An OGW of LeT, identified as Showkat
Ahmad Khan allegedly involved in the murder of Hurriyat leader
Sheikh Aziz on August 11, 2008, was arrested nearby Kansipora
locality in Baramulla District.
United Jehad Council chairman
and HM 'chief', Syed Salahuddin stated that ongoing Panchayat
polls are means for local self- governance and that militants
will not target panches and sarpanches .
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May 27 |
Two foreign militants of LeT,
identified as Omais and Qari Anas, were killed in an encounter
with SFs at Nowpora Kalan of Sopore in Baramulla District.
The BSF foiled a major infiltration
attempt by a group of four militants on the IB at Chak Majra Border
Out Post (BOP) in Ramgarh sector of Samba District. It has been
observed during the abortive intrusion bids that the militants
planted IEDs along the IB as well as the LoC to cause casualties
among the SFs during patrolling.
An anti-tank mine was defused
by SFs at Kolhapur near Basantar in Ramgarh of Samba District.
SFs detected and defused an IED
planted by suspected militants at a village in Ponda on Doda-Bharat
road in Doda District.
State Police and SFs, on advice
of State Government, placed chairmen of both factions of APHC,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, JKLF chairman Mohammad
Yasin Malik, Javid Ahmad Mir, Professor Gani Bhat, Bilal Gani
Lone, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Zaffar Akbar Bhat and other leaders under
house arrest and prevented them from carrying out their programmes.
Omar Abdullah criticized the APHC
leaders for calling strikes during summer. Meanwhile, some people
took to streets in some of the areas of downtown Srinagar city
and pelted stones on Police and SFs against the Government decision
to put the Hurriyat chairman under house arrest. The protesters
resorted to stone pelting and it was retaliated by cane charge
by Police and SFs.
Omar Abdullah said, "There is
credible information to suggest that there have been successful
attempts at infiltration last month", According to inputs, there
are 42 training camps for militants across the LoC and a total
of 250 to 400 trained militants at the launching pads waiting
for infiltration.
Militants barged into the house
of Ghulam Rasool Mir at village Bawan, Zachaldara in Handwara
area of Kupwara District and killed him along with his son Manzoor
Ahmad Mir, a Government teacher.
SFs neutralised a hideout of LeT
outfit and recovered a cache of ammunition and explosive material
in Bhalna area of Keshwan forest belt of Kishtwar District.
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May 29 |
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,
said, "There is no way to link infiltration with tourists. If
you say infiltration has taken place and tourists need to go,
it is wrong. If they (militants) have come, we will deal with
them". He further asked separatists "why you try to create unrest
in summers when Kashmir witnesses a huge tourist rush? If you
want to create unrest try to do it in winter. Why you do it in
summers? "
Jammu and Kashmir Government has
banned unauthorised sale, purchase and stitching of Army uniforms
in Srinagar under section 144 CrPC, throughout the territorial
jurisdiction of the Srinagar District.
A total of nine blocks in seven
Districts of the State went to polls in the 12th phase of the
Panchayat Elections recording a percentage of 74.
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May 30 |
BSF personnel on thwarted an infiltration
attempt by the militants, amidst Pakistan Rangers firing, on the
IB near Regal BOP at Naka No.197 between fencing pillar numbers
97 and 98 in Samba sector. A guide of the militants was killed
and a group of three to four militants were forced retrieve back
to Pakistan.
The President of Democratic Freedom
Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah, was arrested by Police on his way to
Shopian District to pay homage to Asiya and Neelofar-the victims
of alleged twin rape and murder of 2009.
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May 31 |
SFs neutralised a militant hideout
in Nigli town of Sopore town in Baramulla District and recovered
a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
SFs recovered two powerful IEDs
from the hideouts of HM 'commander' Shahdin Khandey, at Kither
village in Bunjwah area of Kishtwar District. Besides two IEDs,
other recoveries made from the hideout, included one wireless
set, 11 blankets, a number of oil containers, one AK magazine
and 15 rounds.
India and Pakistan failed to agree
on the modalities for demilitarisation of Siachen but decided
to continue talks to arrive at a solution to the issue.
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June 1 |
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Chairman
of APHC-G, was placed under house arrest in Srinagar, one day
ahead of his meeting with Ram Jethmalani's Kashmir Committee.
JKLF Chairman, Mohammad Yasin
Malik, said he will not meet the Ram Jethmalani-led Kashmir Committee.
Senior separatist leader Moulana
Abass Hussain Ansari returned to APHC-M fold following the executive
council of the faction revoking his suspension.
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June 2 |
Kashmir Committee led by Ram Jethmalani
would begin their mission Kashmir-II with the panel holding dialogue
with different sections of the society including separatists.
SFs neutralised a LeT hideout
and recovered explosives in Kopra Top area in Thanna Mandi of
Rajouri District on June 2. Recoveries include 10 destroyed grenades,
1.5 grams black powder (suspected to be explosive) and a shawl.
Army has confirmed that at least
700 militants are waiting to infiltrate into Kashmir and there
have been some incidents of firing at the Line of Control (LoC)
to facilitate their crossing.
The head of the Kashmir Committee
Ram Jethmalani held meetings with separatist leaders including
APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani in Sriganar and said a solution
to the Kashmir issue is not far away.
Polling for 13th Phase of Panchayat
elections was held in Ladakh along with six other blocks of Jammu
and Kashmir regions. A total of 73.1 percent voters exercised
their franchise in this phase.
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June 3 |
Three LeT militants, including
one from Pakistan, were killed in an encounter with SFs in Sopore
town of Baramulla District. Three AK rifles, six magazines and
three RPG boosters have so far been recovered.
SFs detected and defused a grenade
at Doongus Mohalla in Poonch town.
Identity of the Pakistani militant
killed in Sopore of Baramulla District has been revealed as the
'district commander' of LeT.
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June 4 |
SFs diffused an anti tank mine
which was recovered on June 3, from Bhorpur village of Samba District
and in another incident, a 155 mm Shell was also diffused by SFs
in the same District.
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June 5 |
The District and Sessions Court
of Kupwara issued a non-bailable warrant against APHC-G chairman
Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The separatist leader has called for a
strike on June 11 to remember the people killed by Police and
SFs in protests.
Latest census conducted by the
J&K Police shows 325 militants are currently present across Kashmir.
And of them, 119 are active - the lowest figure ever since militancy
erupted in the state in 1990. While 168 are local militants, 134
are foreign national, majority of them associated with LeT. Despite
setbacks, HM is the largest militant outfit operating in Kashmir
with 143 active cadres, including 15 foreign militants.
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June 6 |
A civilian, identified as Mohammad
Afzal Khan of Sopore (Baramulla District), was shot by militants
at Partap Park on Residency Road in Srinagar City.
The 14th phase of Panchayat
(village level local self-government institution) Election, 67.3
per cent electorates exercised their right to franchise in nine
blocks.
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June 7 |
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said that there
are an estimated 250 to 300 militants active in the State. According
to Police estimates, in central Kashmir which comprises the Districts
of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal, there is presence of 15 militants.
Most of the militants in the central Kashmir are active in the
peripheries of Budgam District, which lies close to the Pir Panjal
mountain range.
An old woman, identified as Gulab
Jan (50), ex-filtrated to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) from
Gultrian village in Poonch District.
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June 8 |
A constable of Jammu and Kashmir
Police, Manzoor Ahmad Najar, was killed by unidentified militants
at Sopore in Baramulla District.
The detained DeM chief, Aasiya
Andrabi, was rearrested soon after being set free on bail.
A City Court in Srinagar permitted
the SIT probing the killing of Moulana Showkat Ahmad Shah to interrogate
jailed militant 'commander' and founder of HM, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo
alias Dr. Qasim, for a period of seven days within the
Central Jail Srinagar premises where Faktoo is lodged.
Sopore in Baramulla District is
in the throes of a struggle between militants and Security Forces
(SFs). In the past month or so, some 15 people - 10 militants
and five civilians - have been killed in the area. Kuldeep Khoda
said, "There are reports of presence of some 'commanders' of LeT
and JeM in Sopore and adjoining areas. In coming days anti-militancy
operations will be intensified in the area."
Chief of the Army Staff, General
V K Singh was given a detailed brief about the overall Security
situation in the Valley and on the LoC.
Security agencies have prepared
a list of 80 militants from different parts of the State, who
have been held up across Pakistan and PoK for 10 to 20 years,
for their return under Rehabilitation Policy of the State.
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June 10 |
SFs killed two militants of LeT,
identified as Javed Ahmed alias Hurera (commander) and
Akhter Hussain alias Mubassir along Wanipora Nullah, in Sajjan
area of Doda District.
Police claimed to have solved
the shootout case in Srinagar city last week when a trader from
Sopore was shot dead by gunmen. Three persons Farooq Ahmad Dar,
Parvaiz Ahmad Tantray and Shabir Ahmad Parray have been arrested
so far and weapon of offence recovered at their instance. However,
the search for Lateef, released militant of HM is going on.
Police placed under house arrest,
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Chairman of APHC-G and arrested Shabir
Ahmad Shah along with his supporters at Lahindajan - Pakharpora
in Budgam District.
SFs have recovered a massive haul
of explosives from a hut in Sarfa-Kote forest area of Boniyar
in Baramulla District.
Recoveries by SFs including 22
fired shells, 12 meant for use by fighter planes and 10 by the
tanks were also done in Jhalo Chak near Greater Kailash area.
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June 11 |
Security Forces recovered a haul
of ammunition including a Chinese grenade in Reasi District.
Army troops diffused a landmine
recovered from Pulsta River near village Salota of Poonch District.
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June 12 |
GOC 15th Corps, Lieutenant
General S A Hasnain said there will be no troop withdrawal or
revocation of AFSPA from the state till complete stability prevails.
He further added that the Army is improving its drills to counter
the changing strategies of the militants.
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June 13 |
SFs neutralised a militant hideout
at village Pondal in Kalakot tehsil (revenue unit) of Rajouri
District and recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
The Police seized counterfeit
currency worth INR 25,940 from two arrested persons, identified
as Rajan Singh and Ramesh Kumar hailing from Amritsar (Punjab)
at Ardh Kunwari enroute Mata Vaishnodevi in Katra in Reasi District.
SFs recovered arms and ammunition
at Behak area near the LoC in Trehgam in Kupwara District.
A militant hideout was neutralised
at Halkhan village of Kokernag in Anantnag District. Two OGWs
identified as Shabir Ahmad and Sabzar Ahmad Bhat were also arrested
from Mirhama-Bijbehara in Anantnag District.
Another suspected militant sympathiser
Mohammad Akbar Khan was arrested during a search operation at
Aripal village of Tral in Pulwama District, a hand grenade was
recovered from him.
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June 14 |
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief
of Army's Northern Command Lieutenant General K T Parnaik said,
"Around 16 training camps still exists in PoK and we are fully
prepared to foil any attempts being made by the neighboring country
to create any disturbance in State". On number of militants of
various outfits functional in these bordering belts, he stated,
"Twenty-seven militants associated with LeT, HUJI and HM are still
active in Rajouri and Poonch Districts".
The Army Commander further said
that to thwart any possible infiltration, Army was maintaining
a tight vigil along the LoC using night vision equipment adding,
"there will soon be realignment of the fence along the LoC near
Keran Post in Poonch District."
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June 15 |
A youth, identified as Manzoor
Ahmad Dar, was shot dead by unidentified militants at Vishru village
of Keller area in Shopian District.
SFs killed a militant in Hamla
Pati forests of Zachaldara Handwara in Kupwara District.
Inspector General of Police (Jammu
range) Dilbag Singh said that there were only 13 militants left
in Jammu region. Of the 13, six are left in Banihal area of Ramban
District - two militants Basharat and Qadir belonging to LeT and
HM are active along with two associates each. Another five militants
are left in Kishtwar District and two more in Doda District.
J&K is paying a heavy price for
fighting terrorism. The state has spent around INR 2,395 crore
last fiscal as its security bill, excluding the expenses on the
Army establishment that is being paid by the Centre.
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June 16 |
Two LeT militants were killed
in an encounter with SFs in Hamla forest range of Handwara area
in Kupwara District.
SFs have recovered arms and ammunition
from a general area of Kanth Bagh in Baramulla District.
SFs destroyed a HM hideout at
Beli forests in Doda District and recovered ammunition.
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June 17 |
Describing Panchayats as
the basic units of development, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah re-affirmed
his Government's commitment to make these grass root institutions
powerful enough to deliver effectively and democratically.
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June 18 |
DGP Kuldeep Khoda expressed concern
over active involvement of former militants in various crime and
anti-social activities in the Valley.
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June 19 |
SFs destroyed a HM hideout at
Phuklan Top in Doda District.
Pakistan Army resorted to heavy
firing on Indian positions targeting Bandi and Tara Posts at the
LoC in Digwar area of Poonch District. The ceasefire violation
aimed at pushing infiltrators into Indian territory.
Separatist leader and President
of DFP Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested at Bijbehara in Anantnag
District along with his supporters.
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June 20
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SFs defused a rocket projectile
bomb in a field at border village of SM Pur in Ramgarh Sector
of Samba District.
Meanwhile, Police detained a young
girl, identified as Rifta Begum working as an OGW of the militants
in Darhal area of Rajouri District.
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June 21
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Denying reports of infiltration
across the LoC, the Army claimed the bids were at a 20-year low
as no militant has been able to sneak into the Valley so far in
2011.
Police arrested two youth from
Kupwara District on June 21. The arrestees after were influenced
by an Imam of Shopian area to join militancy and carry out a Jihad
against the State.
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June 22
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Troops launched a joint search
operation at village Chamrerh in Thanna Mandi area falling under
DKG belt in Rajouri District following information about the movement
of two LeT militants in the area.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that barring the killing of civilians by militants all the parameters
related with militancy are well within the control. He said that
election is not the solution to the Kashmir issue. "It (Kashmir
issue) cannot be resolved through Panchayat polls and I am the
first one to admit that the Kashmir problem should be addressed
politically". On the revocation of AFSPA from the State, the Chief
Minister said the Government should be able to move forward on
the issue by year-end.
DGP, Kuldeep Khoda said that more
than 1500 policeman have been killed during the past 20 years
of insurgency in the State.
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June 23
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Two LeT militants were killed
in an encounter with the SFs at Chamraid in Bafliaz belt of Poonch
District, recoveries were also made from the site.
An unidentified militant was killed
by the SFs near Razdan Pass in Bandipora District, along with
recovered arms and ammunition.
The SFs carried out search operations
in Keran sector of Kupwara District and recovered one AK-47 rifle
along with a radio set.
Inspector General of (BSF) of
Jammu Frontier, Sunil Chattopadhyay said that though the situation
on the IB is calm as compared to last four years yet there is
no scope for complacency as around 170 militants are still getting
arms training in eight camps on the other side of border and may
try to sneak into this side.
With intelligence and security
agencies having okayed the return of 108 Jammu and Kashmir militants,
who are currently either in Pakistan or in PoK, the Centre too
is likely to clear their cases by next month. Sources said the
applications of 28 militants had already been cleared by a committee
comprising representatives of the State Government, Union Ministry
of Home Affairs and the Army. "Eighty more names will be cleared
by the end of this month.
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June 24 |
Six persons, including a Policeman,
were injured when militants fired a rifle grenade towards Police
Station in the Sopore area of Baramulla District.
First five months of 2011 has
been the most peaceful time in Kashmir, compared to corresponding
periods of the past two decades, assessments by the Security establishment
has shown.
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June 25 |
Army foiled an infiltration attempt
from across the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch District.
The SFs neutralized a hideout
of LeT militants in the Bhata forest area of Kishtwar District
and recovered arms and ammunition.
Pakistan-based LeT outfit runs
a series of well-oiled courses for budding terrorists, ranging
from religious indoctrination to military and intelligence training,
which are aimed at boosting militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. David
Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American LeT operative and an accused
in the 26/11, in his testimony during the recently-concluded trial
of co-accused Tahawwur Rana provided an insight into the religious,
military and intelligence training being imparted by the LeT.
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June 27 |
Two HM militants, identified as
'divisional commander' Muzaffar Ahmad Malla alias Chota Moulvi
and his associate Suhail Khan alias Shahid, were killed in a 12-hour
long gun-battle with the SFs in Pulwama District. Two AK assault
rifles, four magazines, 14 rounds, an UBGL along with a grenade
and two Chinese hand grenades were recovered from the incident
site. Muzaffar, who had received arms training in PoK, was one
of the most wanted militants in South Kashmir.
Meanwhile, unidentified militants
shot dead an employee of Irrigation and Flood Control Department,
Mohammad Yaqoob Kasana, in the Kangan area of Ganderbal District.
No militant outfit claimed the responsibility for the incident.
SFs neutralized a militant hideout
and recovered arms and ammunition in Chamsa area of Gool tehsil
in Ramban District. The recoveries include two .303 rifles, three
magazines and 111 rounds.
SFs launched a major search and
cordon operation at Daryal in Budhal Top area of Rajouri District
following reports about movement of three to four militants.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah underlined
that there was an urgent need for rehabilitating surrendered militants
in the State.
Elections were held in two left
out Panchayat of Zanskar and Lunuk in Kargil District of
Ladakh region. While 65 per cent voting was recorded in Zanskar
block, 67 per cent people cast their votes in Lunuk.
The Election Department would
write to the Government about 1300 vacancies, which couldn't be
filled during the Panchayat elections due to varied reasons,
to take a decision on their fate.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that guaranteed public service delivery to the people in Jammu
and Kashmir is his Government's cherished goal and administration
has been sensitized at all levels in this regard.
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June 28 |
A militant hideout was neutralized
and a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered by the SFs
in Makla Nallah area of Kishtwar District.
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June 29 |
A HM militant, identified as Tamir
Ahmad Khuroo alias Junaid Khuroo (20), shot himself dead
at Arampora in Sopore town of Baramulla District.
Unidentified assailants shot at
and injured a Police officer in Bemina area of Srinagar.
BSF foiled an infiltration attempt
by two to three militants at Ballard Post in Ramgarh sector of
Samba District.
APHC-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
ruled out any chance of re-unification with APHC-G led by Syed
Ali Shah Geelani, saying all efforts made by him have proved futile.
He advocated for incremental approach for resolving Kashmir issue,
saying, "Solution of Kashmir issue has to be step-by-step process.
We are willing to discuss everything with New Delhi apart from
status quo."
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June 30 |
A Police constable was injured
as two militants hurled a grenade on a night Police patrol party
near Nagnigarh Police post in the Keshwan area of Kishtwar District.
Police have launched searches for LeT 'divisional commander' Habib
Gujjar alias Salman and his associate Khurshid Ahmed in
Nagnigarh forests where they had reportedly taken shelter after
attacking the Police party.
An IED, weighing five kilograms,
was found and subsequently defused along the banks of Dal Lake
in Srinagar.
SFs neutralized a militant hideout
recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunition at Doke Haril forest
in Handwara area of Kupwara District.
The SFs arrested a heavily-armed
militant in Anantnag District. Ali Mohammad Wani alias Ali Baba,
a resident of Natipora-Sangam village, was arrested at Kari Kadal
near Bijbehara, along with a pistol, its one magazine with 162
rounds, two hand grenades, an IED and 40 rounds of General Purpose
Machine Gun.
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July 1 |
Police arrested a conduit of the
HM, identified as Mudasir Ahmad Dar of village Frisal in Kulgam
District, from the Pinglish-Tral area in Pulwama District.
CM Omar Abdullah said that militants
continued to carry on with their activities and show presence
but they will not be allowed to succeed in their designs to disturb
Shri Amarnath Yatra.
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July 3 |
Expressing satisfaction over the
law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir, DGP Kuldeep Khoda
said people should remain vigilant against those spreading rumours.
"Some elements do not want peace in the State for their personal
gains and want to disrupt congenial atmosphere by spreading havoc
among the public through rumors".
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July 4
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The Supreme Court referred to a
Constitution bench the plea of J&K National Panthers Party challenging
the legality of the return and rehabilitation policy of J&K
Government allowing the return of youth, who had crossed over to
Pakistan in 1990s, to the Valley.
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July 5
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The SFs neutralized a militant module
by arresting two suspects, who were carrying INR 1.19 lakh cash
for Rafiq Shaikh alias Basharat, ‘divisional commander’ of
the Pir Panjal Regiment of HM, in Kulgam District.
SFs conducted operations following
a tip off about the presence of two LeT militants at Model Town
in the Sopore area of Baramulla District.
Police clashed with a group of protesters,
in Pampore town on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The protesters,
who were protesting against arrest of a youth, Raja Kandroo, pelted
stones on Police who used tear smoke and batons to chase them away.
Army foiled an infiltration bid
by militants, in which one was killed in Keran sector of Kupwara
District, and large quantity of arms and ammunition was also recovered
from the possession of the deceased militant.
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July 6
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A Police Inspector injured in militant
attack in Srinagar's Bemina locality on June 29, succumbed to his
injuries.
Nine Policemen were injured, four
of them critically, when militants detonated an Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) packed in a scooter outside Sopore Police Station in
Baramulla District.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
acknowledged that there were “practical issues” in implementing
the rehabilitation policy for militants.
The Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir
would be visiting three Districts of Jammu region besides holding
two days long Round Table Conference (RTC) in Jammu during their
visit. The Interlocutors are scheduled to visit Ramban, Reasi and
Kathua Districts from July 8 before holding the RTC on July 11 and
12. The Interlocutors have submitted nine reports to the MHA so
far and after their current visit, they would submit their 10th
report.
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July 7
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Reiterating that J&K is a political
issue which needs a political solution, CM Omar Abdullah said the
origin of the issue is linked with India, Pakistan and the people
of J&K. Asserting that is not the issue of money or gun he said
that elections are no solution to the Kashmir issue. The CM said
that he has made it clear time and again that the elections, whether
of Parliament, State Legislature or Panchayats, are not answer to
the resolution of political issues of J&K.
The Centre approved INR 1,000 crore
special package for imparting training to 8,000 youth annually in
the State with the help of the corporate sector. As many 40,000
graduates, post-graduates and professional degree holders from the
State will be covered in the next five years.
APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani
asked the youth of Kashmir to desist from stone pelting. He said
last year 120 civilians were killed in Police and Security Forces
firing and "we did not achieve anything”.
PDP said its ‘self-rule doctrine’
will mitigate the negative effects of Partition. PDP patron and
former State Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said, "The
self-rule document of my party is aimed at negating the negative
effects of Partition. Partition has plugged all traditional routes
which were earlier connecting Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of
the world”.
Minister of State for Tourism and
Culture Nasir Aslam Wani has said that J&K is as safe as any
other place in the world.
CM Omar Abdullah said that the Supreme
Court observation on SPOs in Naxal-hit areas cannot be applicable
to J&K as the SPOs in the State were part of the regular Police
force.
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July 8
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An unidentified militant was killed
in an encounter with the SFs at Bonhajin village in the Rajpora
area of Pulwama District.
SFs recovered a large quantity of
arms, ammunition and explosive material, from a hideout of the HM
‘area commander’, Mashooq Ali, who had rejoined militancy after
surrender and was presently on the run, at Gajna Top in Arnas area
of Reasi District.
Troops recovered two double barrel
guns, one Chinese grenade, six detonators, 30 AK rounds and some
explosive material from village Chankote in Kishtwar District.
Three persons were arrested along
with FICN worth INR 4,000 in Poonch District.
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July 9
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Top JeM ‘commander’, identified
as Ahsan Bhai, and his associate, Javed Ahmad Nengroo, were killed
in a gun battle with SFs in Hanjan Payeen village Pulwama District.
Arms and ammunition was also recovered from the possession of these
two militants.
SFs arrested a militant, identified
as Mohammad Arif Iqbal, who returned to Poonch from the LoC in Sabjian
sub sector in the night At the time of his arrest, SFs recovered
PKR 850 and one Pakistani SIM card from the possession of militant.
A young girl of Sabjian, who had crossed over to Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK) along with the militant friend in 2008, has been held
hostage by Pakistan Army in their Bagh camp.
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July 10
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An explosion killed two boys at
village Ratsuna in the Tral area of Pulwama District in the eveninng
Superintendent of Police (SP, Awantipora) Irshad said that the
explosion took place in the house of one Mohammed Yusuf Lone,
an OGW of HM. Police said that Chinese grenade death of two boys.
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July 11
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Army said security situation in
the State over the next few months will determine the outcome
of the consultative process with the State Government over revocation
of AFSPA. GOC (15 Corps), Lt. Gen. Syed Atta Hasnain, said that
Army has given its view to the Government on AFSPA.
Maintaining that a consensus has
emerged on large number of issues concerning the State in the
RTC, the Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir said that the recommendation
of the two-day RTC, which started in Jammu would be submitted
to the Centre.Interlocutor Radha Kumar said that separatists have
a major role to play in resolving longstanding Kashmir dispute
and they must not be overlooked.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that the State Government will transfer powers to the sarpanchs
and panchs in the State for effective implementation of
work at the grassroots level.
A new political party, JK Intelligentsia
Guild (JKIG), was launched in Jammu and Kashmir, which apart from
working towards “peaceful, amicable, permanent and everlasting”
settlement of the Kashmir dispute will encourage people of the
State to exploit sagaciously the locally available resources to
achieve self-reliance and also promote educational network.
The first Kashmiri language daily
of Jammu and Kashmir hit the newsstands in Srinagar and other
major towns of the Valley. The daily, named Kahwet (which
means touchstone in Kashmiri), was launched by State Minister
for higher education Abdul Gani Malik at the Sher-i-Kashmir International
Conference Centre.
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July 12
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Police raided a place on Srinagar-Sopore
road in Baramulla District recovered two IEDs.
After the end of two-day RTC,
Government-appointed interlocutors said that "consensus"
has been achieved, and they have got a long list of "concrete
recommendations" on Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairman of the APHC-M, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, described the dialogue process initiated by Centre
through Interlocutors as a "farce".
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July 13
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In order to scuttle the separatist
protests and the march to commemorate the 1931 ‘Martyr's day’
commemoration in Srinagar, authorities have placed almost all
the senior separatist leaders under house arrest and decided to
impose restrictions in old city areas in Srinagar.
A Policeman, Morifat Hussain Sheikh,
who was injured in an IED) blast that took place outside Sopore
Police Station in Baramulla District on July 6, succumbed to injuries
in Srinagar.
Six persons were injured when
an explosive device went off at Bonn Hanjan in the Rajpora area
of Pulwama District.
SFs recovered four jackets and
grenades besides a wireless set from a mosque at Chak Natnussa
Mir Mohalla in Kupwara District.
The Interlocutors on Jammu and
Kashmir said that four broad points have emerged during their
10 months long stint in which they covered 20 of 22 Districts
and met over 4000 people.
Chief Interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar
said everyone out of 590 delegations and 4000 people they met
were convinced that process of dialogue was the only option to
resolve the problems and that militancy and violence haven’t served
any purpose.
On separatists he said, "We
are ready to meet them—openly or privately. The separatists are
refusing to meet us. They have to take a decision (on meeting
us),’’ admitting that the separatists are ‘‘stake holders’’ in
a solution to Kashmir problem.
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July 14
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The Army has cordoned off the
area in Midanpora village in Lolab of Kupwara District, where
five members of family have been taken hostage. Initial operation
was started by the Police. The Army was later called in for help.
Police filed a charge sheet against
eight persons, including LeT ‘commander’ Abdullah Uni, for their
alleged involvement in the killing of Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadees chief
Maulana Shaukat Ahmad Shah in an IED blast in April, 2011.
M M Ansari, one of the three Interlocutors
on Jammu on Kashmir, said that the document will contain their
(separatists) “known positions" and "well documented"
views.
A militant from Poonch, identified
as Mohammad Arif Iqbal, who had recently crossed over to this
side of the LoC from Sabjian after spending three years in PoK,
confirmed the presence of at least 175 militants, of Poonch District
in different training camps and other places in PoK. He has disclosed
militants were mostly affiliated to LeT and HM, and were from
different parts of Poonch district.
An official spokesman of Rural
Development has stated that names of elected Sarpanches
and Panches has been already notified under SRO 211. The
information is available on departmental website, www.jkrd.nic.in,
he maintained.
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July 15
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All the five members of a family
taken hostage by militants in Kupwara District have escaped unhurt.
SF personnel killed five militants
of Pakistan-based LeT, including ‘divisional commander’ Abu Saqib,
‘district commander’ Abu Hamaad and ‘deputy district commander’
Omair, in a day-long gun battle in Kupwara District.
The SFs recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition, including one pistol, one pistol magazine, one
bullet of pistol, 90 bullets of AK 47, one AK 47 magazine and
one radio set from Mahore area of Reasi District.
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July 16
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SFs shot dead a militant of LeT
outfit in an encounter at Battalhal in Loi Dhar near Kohat village
of Keshwan area in Kishtwar District and recovered arms and ammunition.
Slain militant happened to be close associate of lone LeT surviving
‘commander’ Habib Gujjar alias Salman.
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July 17
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Troops neutralised a hide-out
of the HM militants at Copra Top at village Mathansu in the Mahore
area of Reasi District and recovered a consignment of arms, ammunition
and explosives.
Search operations were intensified
in the areas of Kathua District, bordering Punjab, following inputs
developed by Punjab Police about movement of a group of militants
in Dhar area of Pathankote in Gurdaspur District, only few kilometers
opposite Basohli tehsil (revenue unit) of Kathua District.
Nearly 450 militants at nearly
42 Pakistani arms training camps are waiting to cross over to
the Indian side, GOC, 16 Corps Lieutenant General J P Nehra said.
Nehra disclosed as per latest inputs nearly 175 LeT and HM militants
were operating in the South of Pir Panjal, including Rajouri-Poonch,
Udhampur, Reasi, Banihal, Ramban and Doda.
He said militants in the State
are now more relying on internet and social working sites, besides
manual communication.
Pakistan has opened three training
camps for women militants in Manshera, Tarbela and Chhattar in
PoK for engineering violence in Jammu & Kashmir. These recruits
are imparted training to use small firearms like automatic pistols
and AK-47, communication systems like GPS and satellite phones
and carry out suicide attacks.
The ISI has also formed control
groups comprising serving and former soldiers and officers to
train militants, chart out their movement within PoK, and identify
leaders among the recruits and plan infiltration through the LoC.
SFs in North Kashmir have eliminated
top ‘commanders’ of the LeT in the Lolab area of Kupwara District
and Sopore area of Baramulla District. After eliminating these
top ‘commanders’ of LeT, security agencies are after the most
wanted LeT ‘commander’, Abdullah Uni, now.
Defence Spokesperson Lieutenant
Colonel J. S. Brar, identified the militants killed in July 15
encounter in Kupwara as ‘North Kashmir divisional commander’,
Saqib alias Sohail of Kasur in Pakistan; ‘Kupwara divisional
commander’, Hamad alias Haneef alias Alfa Islam
of Abbottabad in Pakistan; ‘Central Kashmir divisional commander’,
Qari Saifullah, ‘battalion commander’ Chotta Saad and ‘battalion
commander’, JeM Umair alias Hafiz.
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July 18
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A Policeman, identified as Fareed
Ahmad Khan (Belt no. 546/Armed Police, 5th Batallion)
was injured when a group of unidentified assailants opened fire
at him outside his residence at Gutlibagh in Ganderbal District.
SP Ganderbal, Imtiyaz Hussain Mir said that the ‘district commander’
of HM Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has been identified behind this incident.
SFs recovered a consignment of
arms and ammunition from a hideout of HM at Khodra dhok under
the jurisdiction of Budhal Police Station in Rajouri District.
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July 19
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The CJM of Sopore District remanded
Qurat-ul-Ain of Jalalabad Sopore, arrested for her alleged links
with militants, for one week Police custody. Sopore Police had
arrested Qurat-ul-Ain alias Sunil on charges of providing
safe house and logistic support and acting as a courier for foreign
militants especially the most wanted militant of Kashmir and LeT
‘commander’, Abdullah Uni.
GOC 15th Corps Lieutenant
General S A Hasnain warned of more infiltration attempts from
PoK in the coming months.
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July 20
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SFs arrested two HM militants
at Kachwa village in the Pattan area of Baramulla District. On
the basis of information provided by them, the SFs recovered arms
and ammunition from the orchards of Ningli Nala.
After the arrest of Sopore girl,
Qurat-ul-Ain, for her alleged links with militancy, Police has
questioned and is investigating the involvement of seven more
Sopore girls for militancy, unlawful activities and LeT links.
APHC-G leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani
was detained by Police in South Kashmir after his supporters clashed
with Police.
Special Director General of CRPF
Anirudh Uppal said the pressure mounted by SFs on the militants
and the initiatives taken by the Government has ensured that the
situation in Kashmir Valley has remained peaceful this year.
The J&K Government is drafting
an updated SOP to avoid loss of human life in blasts due to non-clearance
of debris at encounter sites. Minister of State for Home Nasir
Aslam Wani convened a meeting to discuss drafting and updating
of the SOP to tackle the aftermath of the encounters.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said that Kashmiri
American Council director in Washington DC, Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai,
arrested by the FBI on July 19, was also diverting the ISI funds
to India, particularly to Jammu and Kashmir, for anti-national
activities.
APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani said, “Fai’s arrest was carried out at India’s behest
to weaken the Kashmir’s struggle at diplomatic level.” APHC-M
chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said, “All groups and individuals
who are championing the Kashmir cause across the globe are working
within the laws of the countries they are in.”
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July 21
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SFs detected and defused an IED
planted by the militants on Poonch-Mendhar road, between Darah
and Jhallas villages, to explode a passenger vehicle.
SFs neutralised a hideout of HM
militants at Sangiot in Mendhar area of Poonch District and recovered
arms and ammunition.
SFs recovered a plastic bag (containing
arms and ammunition) kept in a small hideout erected by the militants
under a boulder, hidden in thick undergrowth in dense part of
Tir Gali in Mahore area of Reasi District.
Investigators have been able to
trace the owner of the two-wheeler used in the IED blast that
killed a Policeman and injured eight others in the Sopore area
of Baramulla District.
Qurat-ul-Ain has become the centre
of a new controversy in Kashmir. Separatist leaders are threatening
an agitation if she isn't released.
The Scotland Yard initiated a
probe into the activities and financing of London-based Kashmir
lobby group, Justice Foundation, suspected to be a front of Pakistan's
ISI.
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July 22
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Two civilians including a minor
girl were critically injured in two separate mine explosions near
the LoC in Poonch District.
SFs arrested a HM militant, identified
as Imtiyaz Ahmad Ganaie, from Barsoo of Awantipora in Pulwama
District.
CJM Sopore granted bail to a girl,
Quratul Ain, alleged to be working for LeT militant outfit.
SFs charged batons, used tear
smoke and fired warning shots in air to crush protests that broke
out in Kulgam District against the alleged abduction and gang
rape of a woman, Rukaya Bano by Army. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
promised action against the guilty, saying the AFSPA will not
be allowed to hamper investigations. GOC 15th Corps
Lieutenant General S.A. Hasnain said that Army had already commenced
its own fast track preliminary investigation.
A three-member Kashmir Committee,
headed by Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani, arrived in Jammu
to hold talks with leaders of political groups, social activists
and intellectuals in the region to find its own solution to the
Kashmir issue.
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July 23
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Top LeT ‘commander’ was among
two militants killed in an encounter with Police and Army in Bagh-e-Hakhar
at Handwara in Kupwara District.
Two youth, identified as Ashfaq
Ahmad Khan (21) and Babar Khan (20) of Markote-Dangiwacha Village,
were killed in Rafiabad forests when an explosive device they
were fiddling with exploded. Sources said the youth had found
some material in the forest and were fiddling with it. All of
a sudden it went off and both of them were killed.
Police neutralised HM hideouts
at Pada dhok and Siot areas under the jurisdiction of Mendhar
Police Station in Poonch District.
A hideout of the slain LeT militant
Hanzala alias Mudassir was neutralised by the SFs at Chichcha
in Inshan forest area of Kishtwar District.
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July 24
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Abu Abdullah, a top ‘commander’
of the LeT, was killed along with his associate, Abu Hamza, on
May 22 after they had fallen into a deep nullah (stream) while
running for cover as they were being chased by the Security Forces.
An intercept of the militants the next day had confirmed the killing
of Hamza and Abdullah, two Pakistani militants of the LeT. Meanwhile,
Police on July 24 recovered the body of Abdullah in Surankote
area of Poonch District.
Unidentified militants shot dead
one person, identified as Mohsin Ahmad Wani, outside his house
at Kral Teng in the Sopore area of Baramulla District.
Militants opened fire at a Special
Police Officer (SPO), Khalid Ahmad Rather, at Hajjan in Bandipora
District. The SPO escaped unhurt.
SFs seized arms and ammunition
at Khanetar Top forests in Poonch District.
The SFs recovered one Chinese
grenade and two detonators at Dabri in Reasi District.
Three LeT militants were reported
to have slipped away from Marha and Mastan Dhara areas of Surankote.
Indian Army personnel have stepped
up night patrolling in the forests and mountains along the LoC
with PoK.
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July 25 |
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah once
again used social networking site Twitter to criticise militant
sympathisers of the State. Criticising human rights activists
and the Kashmiri press for not reacting to the killing of a youth
in Sopore town of Baramulla District in the night of July 24,
the Chief Minister tweeted.
Omar Abdullah appealed for peace
to allow authorities to unearth the facts behind the alleged rape
of a woman by two Army personnel in Kulgam District.
Special Director General CRPF,
Anirudh Uppal said his force is working hard to ensure peace and
normalcy in Kashmir.
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July 26 |
SFs shot dead a HM 'commander'
Wasif alias Kamran alias Subhash at Gokund in the
Rennai area under the jurisdiction of Marwah Police Station in
Kishtwar District.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
said the Centre will convene an all party meeting once the Interlocutors
on Kashmir submit their recommendations for discussing them.
Chidambaram said that the crucial
phase of the new policy for return of youth of Jammu and Kashmir,
who had crossed over to PoK for arms training in early 1990s and
were now willing to join the mainstream, was "extremely complicated"
and the Government is trying to address it.
He also noted, "I think the Government
[State] has learnt some lessons how to handle stone pelters".
On the issue of infiltration,
Chidambaram said that Pakistan-based terror outfits were trying
hard to push in their men from across the border but only a few
such bids could materialise.
Pakistan Minister Hina Rabbani
Khar met leaders of both the factions the APHC during which the
separatists sought Islamabad's intervention for release of Ghulam
Nabi Fai arrested in US for being a front of ISI.
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July 27 |
The Army foiled an infiltration
bid by Pakistani militants through the LoC in the Hyhama area
of Kupwara District.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that "there is nothing new in Hurriyat Conference leaders meeting
Pakistani dignitaries. This is not happening for the first time
and there is nothing to worry about". His government was focusing
on providing necessary infrastructure and manpower at hospitals,
schools and other institutions so as to ensure quality services
to the people.
Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam
Nabi Fai, accused of being an ISI agent and funneling its money
into the US to influence American lawmakers on Kashmir, has admitted
to taking money from ISI.
Unidentified militants killed
a labourer, Mohammad Ashraf Dar, at Sopore in Baramulla District.
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July 28 |
Army launched search operation
in the forests of Hyhama sector in Kupwara District near LoC.
Police in Anantnag District neutralized
a HM module by arresting Mohammad Yaseen Dass of Waghama and Shabir
Ahmad Dar of Mehand.
Terming peace imperative to address
political issues and work out an amicable solution, Chief Minister,
Omar Abdullah appealed the people to help to maintain tranquility
in the State and give necessary fillip to his efforts in this
pursuit.
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July 29 |
SFs recovered three IEDs from
a passenger bus on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Qazigund
in Ananthnag District.
The chairman of the APHC-M Umar
Farooq said the mainstream political parties in J&K represent
Indian Government's view point on issue of State and there is
no need of Pakistan to hold talks with them.
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July 30 |
Two Army personnel were killed
as troops foiled a major infiltration bid by heavily armed militants
in Furqiangali of Kupwara sector in Kupwara District.
Army personnel killed a militant
during a search and encounter operation in Rashampora village
of Kupwara.
A Bakerwal youth dodged two LeT
militants, reportedly belonging to Pakistan's Punjab Province,
before reaching a safe location from where he was rescued by a
Police party in the Banihal area of Ramban District.
Awantipora Police arrested one
Aijaz Ahmad Shah of Tral Payeen in Pulwama District.
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July 31 |
An Army soldier injured in the
July 30 encounter at Furqiyangali in Kupwara sector succumbed
to injury.
Tension gripped Sopore town of
Baramulla District after a youth, Nazim Rashid alias Anjum,
allegedly died in Police custody.
Giving 'clean chit' to chief Interlocutor
on J&K Dileep Padgaonkar, an unnamed senior Home Ministry official
said the ministry had minutely examined the content of the recorded
speech delivered by him at the seminar organized by Kashmiri American
Council leader Gulam Nabi Fai and found nothing that could even
remotely point at something that can be interpreted as 'anti-India'.
The Delhi Police has reportedly
launched a manhunt for Nasir Safi Mir, who is accused of funding
several Hurriyat leaders and is believed to have fled to the Gulf
after jumping parole.
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August 1 |
SFs neutralized a hideout of the
militants at Chaprian in the Mandi area of Poonch District and
recovered a large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives.
Sources said the area falls close to Shri Buddha Amarnath yatra
route.
Traffic on Jammu-Poonch road remained
suspended for about five hours after an explosive like material
was sniffed by the expert dogs of the Army, which were part of
the Road Opening Party at Sakhi Maidan.
Sopore and its adjacent towns
of Baramulla and Bandipora observed spontaneous shut down against
alleged custodial killing of Nazim Rashid.
IGP, Jammu Zone Dilbagh Singh
said that four militants from Hindu community have been killed
during the two-decade-long militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 2 |
SFs killed a militant in Butshugni
Kawnar forest area of Handwara in Kupwara District.
NIA has put APHC-G chairman Syed
Ali Shah Geelani under the scanner, following investigations of
ISI funding for separatists in J&K.
SFs arrested a LeT militant, identified
as Mushtaq Ahmed alias Mustafa alias Master, from
Belicharana area in Jammu, where he was putting up since 2008.
Two young girls crossed over to
PoK from Charari Mohalla in Mandhar area of Shahpur Kirni sector
in Poonch District.
Senior leaders of the PDP had
close shave at Sopore when an angry mob outside Nazim Rashid's
home pelted stones at them.
APHC-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
threatened violent protests across Kashmir if the restrictions
imposed on the separatist leaders continued.
A close aide of APHC-G leader
Syed Ali Shah Geelani is among four persons charge sheeted by
NIA in connection with alleged hawala racket used to channelise
money to terrorists of HM in the Kashmir Valley.
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August 3 |
SFs shot dead two militants in
the Esmali forests area of Keran in Kupwara District.
A militant was killed in the Wudderbala
forests area of Zachaldara in same District.
SFs destroyed a hideout of the
militants and recovered arms, ammunition and explosives at village
Walan Wali in the Samot area of Budhal in Rajouri District.
Life in Srinagar and other major
towns of the Kashmir valley was affected by a strike call given
by (APHC-G) and supported by APHC-M against the alleged custodial
killing of Nazim Rashid alias Anjum in Sopore area of Baramulla
District.
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August 4 |
An encounter broke out between
militants and SFs at Putchal in Pulwama District.
SFs killed LeT 'chief' for Kishtwar,
Habib Gujjar alias Salman and his associate, Irshad Ahmed
Koli, in a gun battle at village Nagaran in the Nagni area of
Keshwan in Kishtwar District.
The IGP said Salman had managed
to recruit six youth of Kishtwar into the outfit during past some
time, all of whom have been neutralized.
Pulwama 'district commander of
LeT, Shakoor Ahmad Teli alias Saif alias Abu Bakar,
was killed in an encounter between militants and SFs at Khar Mohalla
village in the Putchal area of Pulwama District.
Army warned of the possibility
of terrorists attempting to disrupt peace in Jammu and Kashmir
especially in view of the upcoming Independence Day (August 15).
Militants have resorted to old
tricks of soft target killings to instill fear among the people
of Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 5 |
At least 12 persons were injured
as street protests in Jammu and Kashmir.
In Sopore town, five protesters
were injured as clashes also broke out between protesters, Police
and CRPF after hundreds of people resorted to stone pelting on
the Security Forces.
In Pulwama town, people carried
out a protest march against what they said human rights violations
in Kashmir.
Senior separatist leaders were
placed under house arrest ahead of APHC -G chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani's call for peaceful protests against the alleged custodial
death of Rashid.
Army foiled two infiltration bid
by heavily armed militants in Kupwara District.
SFs arrested an OGW of HM, been
identified as Nissar Hussain, from village Manu in Kalakote tehsil
of Rajouri District.
Director General of Police Kuldeep
Khoda said that situation is improving in the State. Also, maintaining
that the situation was well under control in the Kashmir valley,
he said there are elements interested in fomenting trouble to
keep the pot boiling in the region.
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August 6 |
Two unidenfied militants were
killed during an encounter with SFs at Hari forests in Surankote
area of Poonch District.
The State Government has approved
over 20 new Police Stations and about 50 Police posts in different
Districts especially the ones, which were created in 2007. Most
of the new Police Stations and posts have been created in the
militancy-infested areas, official sources said.
Two of infiltration attempts made
in the Machill sector of Kupwara District were foiled.
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August 7 |
LeT 'divisional commander', identified
as Fadullah was killed by SFs.
Police have come across a major
nexus among border smugglers, Pakistani militants and hawala
operators having network in Jammu and New Delhi besides across
the border in Pakistan.
APHC-G leader, Syed Ali Geelani,
has called for complete shutdown on August 15, the Independence
Day of India.
Interlocutors have begun drafting
the final report on Kashmir settlement amid speculations of difference
of opinion in the panel on several 'contentious issues' and 'lack
of consensus on the overall political solution.
SFs shot dead a LeT 'divisional
commander', identified as Abu Usmaan, in an exchange of fire in
the Mehrota area of Poonch District.
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August 8 |
Two militants were killed in the
operation in Rajwar forest area of Kupwara District.
Clashes broke out in the Maisuma
locality of Srinagar in the evening after a youth was picked up
on charges of stone pelting. Youth pelted stones on Police and
CRPF injuring several CRPF and Policemen.
Radha Kumar, one of the three
Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, have written a resignation
letter to the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram saying that she
doesn't want to be associated with her colleague M M Ansari, another
Interlocutor.
Militants abducted two persons,
including a recently elected Panch from Pulwama District.
Two SPOs have gone missing along
with their service rifles in Kulgam District. Also, two counter
insurgents, Bashir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmad, working with the Police
have also reportedly gone missing along with them.
The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah-led
Government has started preparing ground for evolving a consensus
among its coalition partners on the Justice Sagheer Committee
recommendations, which has advocated autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 9 |
DIG of Police (Central Kashmir)
Abdul Gani Mir said that 18 protesters were arrested in the night
of August 8 from different neighbourhoods of Srinagar, while nearly
a dozen protesters were arrested during similar raids in the night
of August 6.
"The Government is aware that
the ISI has reactivated terrorist training camps in Pakistan occupied
Kashmir," Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh told
the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
The head of the three-member panel
of Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, Dileep Padgaonkar, said
it would complete its report by September-end.
The MHA has clarified that Radha
Kumar, one of the three interlocutors, has not tendered her resignation.
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August 10 |
Nearly 40,000 people have been
killed in militancy-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir in the
last two decades, the Government said.
In the first six months of 2011,
52 terrorists attempted to infiltrate into the Indian Territory
from the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as against 489 in 2010,
the Rajya Sabha was informed.
The Defence Minister A.K. Anthony
said, "The Army has killed two terrorists trying to infiltrate
along the Line of Control in J&K till date in 2011 and in 2010
it had killed 38 terrorists".
Meanwhile, Army Chief General
V. K. Singh warned that terrorists retained the ability to calibrate
the level of violence in Jammu and Kashmir despite suffering severe
setbacks.
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August 11 |
A LeT militant was killed in an
encounter in the forests of Tangwari Warson in Kralpora area of
Kupwara District.
An office of Animal Husbandry
Department along with some shops and a shed suffered minor damages
in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Tahab in Pulwama
District.
Army Chief General V K Singh said
that the troops can't afford to lower the guard on the LoC as
militants were still present in the camps in Pakistan and PoK
and could try to infiltrate into this side any time.
A militant, who was to be released
this week following court acquittal, escaped from custody in Shopian
District.
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August 12 |
Clashes broke out between stone
pelting youths and SFs in Nowhatta area of Srinagar City. In the
incident, five youths were injured.
ADGP Security, Navin Agarwal,
chaired a high level security review meeting regarding Independence
Day (August 15) at security headquarters.
Militants escaped after SFs launched
cordon-and-search operation in Pir Mohalla Behnipora in Handwara
of Kupwara District.
Agencies reported that the Indian
Army officials in Rajouri District imparted arms training to girls
with an aim to combat militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 13 |
SF recovered two decomposed bodies
of militants from upper reaches of mountainous Kishtwar District.
Unidentified militants throw hand
grenades on two CRPF camps at Dal Gate area of Srinagar.
Army neutralised a militant hideout
and recovered 43 kilogrammes explosives in Dhurmuna area of Budgam
District.
CRPF Inspector General B N Ramesh
said that a group of militants has managed to sneak into Kashmir
valley from across the LoC to create trouble on the eve of Independence
Day.
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August 14 |
SFs confirmed the killing of HM
'divisional commander' Shabir Shah alias Shah Din Khandey
and one of his close associate, Mushtaq Ahmed alias Abu
Tallah, at Bhadi Dhok in Kither area of Kishtwar District.
SFs recovered huge cache of arms
and ammunition from forests in Kupwara District.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked
separatist leaders to join in a "positive manner" the process
for finding a lasting solution to political issues in the State.
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August 15 |
Violating ceasefire, Pakistani
rangers started unprovoked firing on Indian post along IB in Ramgarh
belt of Samba sector of Jammu District.
Police recovered a cache of arms
and ammunition from Shikargah forests in the Tral area of Pulwama
District.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed
hope that Centre will implement the recommendations made by its
team of interlocutors for addressing the political issues of the
Kashmir problem.
Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi
Fai, who has been charged with being an undeclared agent of ISI
in the US, was also a director of a UK-based organisation, promoting
Pakistani interest on Kashmir.
US prosecutors claim that three
"Kashmir Centers" in Washington, London and Brussels, are run
on behalf of "elements of the Pakistani government, including
Pakistan's military intelligence service, the ISI".
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August 16 |
Minister of State for Home Jitendra
Singh told Lok Sabha that a total of 100 people have been killed
in 202 incidents of terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir till
July 2011.
He also said 219 Kashmiri Pandits
(KPs) were killed and around 58,000 families of the community
have left Jammu and Kashmir in last 22 years after the onset of
terrorism in the state in 1989.
He said that seven persons, including
those associated ISI, were charged in the United States with the
26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
He also informed that ISI is continuously
sponsoring terrorist infrastructure in that country to help infiltration
into India.
A soldier was injured as troops
foiled an infiltration bid by the militants from across the border
in Keri sector of Rajouri District.
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August 17 |
SFs neutralized a hideout of the
HM militants and recovered arms and ammunition in Khanetar Top
in Poonch District.
Police arrested a militant and
an OGW, who last week had escaped from a Police Station in Shopian
District, near Gallander in the Pampore area of Pulwama District.
Four HM militants, operating in
Reasi District, have reportedly surrendered before the SFs at
village Hakawas, the border of Reasi-Kulgam Districts, falling
under the jurisdiction of Damhal Police Station of Kulgam District.
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August 18 |
Army foiled Pakistan backed infiltration
attempt by the militants on the LoC at Durga Post in the Digwar
sector of Poonch District.
Several outlawed Pakistan-based
terror groups remain active in Kashmir and continue to target
and plan attacks on India, a US report on global terrorism said.
Back from his visit to Jammu and
Kashmir, US senator John McCain took a tough stand over "troubling
connections" of Pakistan security with terror groups.
Police claim to have wiped out
HM group from Kulgam-Reasi belt.
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August 19 |
A soldier was injured in a mine
blast at the LoC near forward post of Nangi in Krishna Ghati sector
of Poonch District.
SF detected and defused four grenades
on the LoC at Balnoi in Poonch sector.
Clashes broke out between stone
throwing protesters and Police and CRPF in Nowhatta area of Srinagar
and in Sopore town of Baramulla District.
CRPF Inspector General (Operations)
B. N. Ramesh praised Kashmiris for providing information to the
SFs about militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 20 |
At least 12 militants and a 26-year-old
Army officer were killed in a fierce gunfight on the LoC in Bandipora
District.
Police and Intelligence agencies
cracked a major hawala network being operated by Pakistan
through two cross-LoC traders doing business on Uri-Muzaffarabad
route.
The jihad in J&K is "bearing
fruit" and India will soon meet its "logical end", claimed JuD
'chief' Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
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August 21 |
An infiltrator was killed and
another injured while two others were forced to flee back to PoK
as troops thwarted infiltration attempt by the militants on the
LoC in Balnoi area of Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch District.
The encounter between Army and
infiltrated militants continued in Kanzalwan forests of Gurez
in Bandipora District.
A militant hideout was neutralized
in Ningali Nala area of Baramulla District and a huge cache of
arms and explosives.
GOC, 15 Corps Syed Atta Muhammad
Hasnain said that militants are desperate and they will make more
infiltration attempts in next two months before the mountain peaks
get closed with fresh snowfall of the season.
General Office Commanding (15
Corps) Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain has expressed apprehensions
that armed terrorists from across the line of control would step
up their efforts to infiltrate in to Jammu and Kashmir in the
coming months.
The SHRC said in Srinagar that
there were 2156 unmarked graves in 38 places of the Valley in
which persons whose identity has not so far been established had
been buried.
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August 22 |
A woman was killed and her husband
wounded in the crossfire between Army and militants in Dard Haji
forest area in the upper reaches of Handwara in Kupwara District.
Army neutralized hide out of LeT
at Sarnihal forest area of Banihal in Ramban District and huge
caches of arms and ammunition.
SFs launched a joint operation
in Darwah Frestwar area of Chandoosa in Baramulla District and
recovered arms and ammunition.
A militant hideout, in a natural
cave, was neutralized by the SFs in the Darnari forests area of
Tangmarg in Damhal Hanjipora region of Kulgam District.
SFs arrested two Special Police
Officers (SPOs) and two others who had absconded from Police Lines
(Kulgam).
"During 2011 up to July, 19 ceasefire
violations have been reported along the LoC," a Home Ministry
official said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reiterated
his idea of setting up of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
to probe all the killings in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 21-years.
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August 23 |
A militant was killed in encounter
near Baktor village in the ongoing operation in the Gurez sector
of Bandipora District raising the death toll of infiltrators killed
in the sector to 13 since August 20.
Army killed an unidentified militant
in an encounter in Dard Haji in the upper reaches of Handwara
in Kupwara District.
Elsewhere in the District, one
militant was killed in an ongoing operation at Lacchipora in Handwara.
SFs in the Mankote area of Mendhar
sector in Poonch District thwarted an infiltration bid of four
militants backed by a forward Pakistan Army post of Jhanda.
SFs neutralized a major hideout
of the militants in Gangra Pattri forests in the higher reaches
of Mahore in Reasi District and recovered a large quantity of
arms and ammunition.
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August 24 |
Dead bodies of two brothers, identified
as Bashir Ahmed and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, residents of village Avdesh
in Mahore area of Reasi District, were recovered.
Militants shot at an injured a
SPO, Javaid Ahmed Lone, of Logripora Bomai Sopore in the Baramulla
District at his home.
SFs at village Daroo in Pulwama
District arrested two HM 'commanders' and recovered huge cache
of arms and ammunition from their possession.
Two local militants, identified
as Shabbir Kalas and Liaqat Ahmed Gorsi, surrendered before the
Army at village Sangawani in Pulwama District.
The Delhi Police produced arrested
'divisional commander' of LeT, Abdullah Inqilabi, before a court
in Rajouri District.
The Government said that around
2,500 "fully trained" militants were ready to infiltrate J&K from
across the border.
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August 25 |
One civilian and a BSF trooper
were killed and two others sustained injuries in a grenade explosion
in the Jehlum Market in Baramulla town of Baramulla District.
At least 11 civilians were injured
in a grenade blast at Batamaloo in Srinagar.
A grenade was recovered at village
Bugroo in Budgam District.
Pakistan Army resorted to a ceasefire
violation on the LoC at Mendhar sector in Poonch District. Three
to four forward posts of Pakistan Army were engaged in heavy firing
targeting Indian posts at Thamlot.
SOG Jammu and Jhajjar Kotli Police
in a joint operation arrested three persons and recovered FICNs
worth INR 500000 from their possession.
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August 26 |
Clashes broke out between SFs
and the stone pelting youth in Nowhatta area of Srinagar city
after over 100000 people offered payers at Jamia Masjid.
JKLF chief Yasin Malik was the
next target for assassination in Kashmir, said LeT in its report
that unveils the elaborate conspiracy behind the April 8, 2011
killing of the Wahhabi cleric Maulana Showkat Shah.
The MHA asked telecom operators
in the Kashmir valley to ensure that all communications on the
internet and social networking sites are monitored on real-time
basis.
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August 28 |
Six Policemen were injured when
over 300 motorcycle-borne stone pelters attacked Nowhatta Police
Station in Srinagar.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced
an amnesty package for nearly 1,200 youths arrested during 2010
summer agitation in Kashmir valley.
He further said that during past
16 months cases were registered against 1300 persons, adding,
35 stone pelters are serving detention under PSA.
Responding to a question about
rehabilitation policy of militants who are willing to return from
PoK, Omar said the Governments of Pakistan and PoK are acting
as stumbling blocks for this policy.
On Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC), the Chief Minister said that it applied to various off-shoots
of militancy and not alone on alleged human rights violations
by SFs.
The hawala money supplied
by Pakistan for the militant 'commanders' and separatists through
cross-LoC trade route of Uri (India)-Muzaffarabad (Pakistan) has
been worked out around INR 60-70 million. Interrogation of the
arrested persons and investigations by the intelligence agencies
have revealed that Firdous Ahmed Dar, arrested on August 20, was
not the only conduit but nearly half a dozen persons had received
hawala money and weapons through the cross-LoC route which
had been supplied by Pakistani agencies.
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August 29 |
A top 'commander' of JeM, identified
as Iqram Bhai of Pakistan, was among two militants killed in a
gun-battle that raged at Mitergam village in Pulwama District.
Police recovered a consignment
of arms and ammunition belonging to HM from Chikka Khet in Pir
Panjal range under the jurisdiction of Budhal Police Station in
Rajouri District.
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August 30 |
Jammu and Kashmir Government is
all set to bypass Pakistani Government to ensure the return of
the youth who had crossed into PoK for arms training in the last
20 years.
Pakistani troops violated the
cease-fire by resorting to firing on an Army post in Keran area
of Kupwara Sector in Kupwara District.
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August 31 |
One woman and a Policeman were
injured as clashes erupted between protesters and SFs in some
parts of the State.
Immediately after the culmination
of Eid prayers at Eidgah in Srinagar, a group of youth pelted
stones on CRPF bunker at Seki Dafar chowk.
Clashes were also reported from
Aarmpora, Cement Bridge and Main Chowk Sopore in the Sopore area
of Baramulla District.
APHC-G leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani
said that he would come out with a protest programme alleging
that most of the youth arrested during 2010 summer agitation are
yet to be released.
A body representing Kashmiri Pandits
said that they are ready to return to the Valley provided at least
three townships are set up there to accommodate them.
BSF Director General Raman Srivastava
said that BSF personnel succeeded in totally curbing the infiltration
by militants across the International Border at the Indo-Pak border
along the Jammu frontier in the past one year.
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September 1 |
A JCO of Army was killed when
Pakistani troops violated the cease-fire for second consecutive
day in Keran sector of Kupwara District.
Security Forces launched a search
operation in remote village of Kalwa in Mahore tehsil of
Reasi District after developing a specific input about presence
of three HM militants in the area.
Several Pakistan-based terrorists
are waiting at the launch pads across the LoC to cross over into
J&K, MHA officials said.
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September 2 |
A militant was killed and two
Army soldiers injured in an encounter at Wuder Bala in the Handwara
area of Kupwara District.
Pakistani troops violated the
cease-fire at the LoC in Keran sector of the same District. With
the latest incidents of firing, the number of ceasefire violations
by Pakistani troops in Keran and Macchil sectors has gone up to
six in the past three days.
The Army intensified search and
combing operations along the LoC in north Kashmir. The soldiers
are carrying out combing and search operations through the dense
forests in Keran, Macchil, Handwara, Kupwara and Gurez sectors
of the Valley.
SFs arrested six fresh LeT recruits
of Shopian from Kalakote area of Rajouri District when they were
heading towards Sunderbani for crossing over to PoK from the LoC
for arms training.
A CRPF trooper was injured in
incidents of stone pelting in Baramulla town.
Geelani has called for two day
strike, on September 6 and 7, against continuous detention of
youth and separatist leaders and threatened more strikes and protests
across Kashmir if Government does not release them immediately.
US Intelligence agencies knew
as early as 1997 that terror groups conducting attacks in Kashmir
as well as the rest of India were being run and funded by the
ISI.
India and Pakistan had through
"back channels" agreed to a non-territorial solution to Kashmir
under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf.
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September 3 |
One unidentified militant was
killed by the SFs in an encounter at Handwara in Kupwara District.
Kupwara Police carried out search
operation in the forest area of Kungdooru Machill, in the District
and recovered cache of arms and ammunition.
An Independent MLA has moved a
resolution in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly seeking clemency
for Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru.
All six fresh recruits arrested
by SFs in Kalakote town of Rajouri District on September 2 were
handed over to Shopian Police.
Jammu and Kashmir Minister for
Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar said the State
Government can only "recommend" to the Central Government to revoke
the AFSPA.
The group of interlocutors on
Jammu and Kashmir said its final recommendations do not exist
''even in their embryonic form'', contradicting media reports
that pre-1953 status will be the way forward in resolving the
sensitive problem.
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September 4 |
SFs neutralized a hideout of militants
in the Lamblan forests of Baramulla District and recovered a cache
of arms and ammunition.
FICN racketeers involved in funding
terrorism across the Kashmir valley have disclosed that Pakistan
has installed a Government printing press for printing fake currency
at Peshawar.
Asserting that the solution to
political issues of J&K is on the anvil, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
asked the political leadership of all shades of opinion to join
hands and contribute in this pursuit positively and sincerely.
According to a leaked US diplomatic
cable released by Wikileaks, the US Embassy had cautioned
its Government against any "activism" in Kashmir saying even a
hint of it can prove counter-productive in view of India's hypersensitivity
to third party involvement on the issue.
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September 5 |
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah sounded tough against any more incident of stone pelting.
The State Government
justified curbs on movement of Geelani saying his provocative
speeches invariably lead to serious law and order problems in
the Kashmir Valley.
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah said that Geelani should be provided a passport.
93 militants have
attempted to infiltrate into J&K till July 2011 and 11 of them
were killed, the Lok Sabha was informed.
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September 6 |
Police have launched
a search operation in upper reaches of Duggan in the Bani area
of Kathua District following reports that some civilians had observed
movement of four militants in upper reaches.
Normal life across
Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir valley was affected
in response to a strike call given by APHC-G leader Syed Ali Shah
Geelani.
More than 350 militants,
many of them Pakistanis, are operating in Jammu and Kashmir, the
Lok Sabha was informed.
A US diplomatic cable
has revealed that in the aftermath of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai
terrorist attacks (26/11), the US had categorically told Pakistan
to dismantle terror infrastructure on its soil and take action
against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed for his alleged involvement in
the attacks.
According to another
cable, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had accused the MEA of
shooting down proposals to resolve the ongoing Kashmir issue.
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September 7 |
NIA detained three
persons in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the
Delhi Blast Case (September 6).
The US officials
knew for a very long time that ISI had created various terrorist
groups, including those based out from Nepal, to carry out attacks
in India, according to the latest US cables.
One of such organisations
created by ISI in Pakistan was JKIF, with its main base in Kathmandu,
Nepal.
For the second consecutive
day normal life remained affected in Kashmir valley in response
to a strike call given by APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah Ali Shah
Geelani.
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September 8 |
Pakistan wanted to
wind down militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 2006, but failed due
to a stiff 10-day protest by militant leaders, according to a
US embassy cable from Islamabad.
Although the details
varied, most accounts agreed on the basic message: time had come
for the militants to stop violence to allow space for President
Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to move forward
with peace initiatives.
The cable also stated
that JKLF secretary general Mohammed Rafiq Dar said the confusion
in the UJC - a conglomerate of leaders of militant groups active
in Kashmir - created an opening for Yasin Malik to advocate a
ceasefire.
United States Embassy
in New Delhi believes that the APHC spearheading the resistance
movement in J&K split in 2003 due to "proxy participation" of
Abdul Gani Lone-led People's Conference (PC) in the Legislative
elections in 2002.
J&K Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah said investigation into the e-mail claiming responsibility
for the Delhi High Court blast, which has been traced to Kishtwar
District of the State, is in an "advanced stage".
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September 9 |
The Jammu and Kashmir
Police arrested a teenage boy who purportedly sent the e-mail
claiming responsibility for the blast outside the Delhi High Court
(September 7, 2011) on behalf of the militant outfit HuJI from
a cyber cafe in Kishtwar.
A US secret diplomatic
cable released revealed that APHC-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
wanted LoC to be converted into a permanent border and three separate
legislative assemblies for Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir regions with
Chief Minister and Governor from each region on rotation basis.
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September 12 |
Two persons were
detained in Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir over the Delhi
High Court blast (September 7, 2011).
APHC-G chairman Syed
Ali Shah Geelani rejected the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
proposed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and demanded a UN-fact
finding mission to probe the unmarked graves in Jammu and Kashmir.
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September 13 |
The SFs killed J&K
LeT 'commander' Abdullah Uni in an encounter at Batpora in the
Sopore area of Baramulla District.
Pakistani Rangers
tried to infiltrate a group of five terrorists into the Indian
Territory from the IB in Ramgarh sector of Samba District.
Unidentified militants
lobbed a grenade on a bunker of CRPF personnel near Gole Masjid-Tral
area in Pulwama District.
Pakistan Army violating
ceasefire opened firing on a forward Indian post of 'PP8' at Jagowal
in Akhnoor sector of Jammu District.
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September 14 |
Militants attacked
CRPF personnel in Sopore town of Baramulla District.
Militants fired gun
shots in the air at the Main Chowk. "Militants fired in the air
at Sopore bus stand," Superintendent of Police (Sopore) Imtiyaz
Hussain said.
SFs neutralized a
militant hideout in the forests of Keran sector in the Kupwara
District and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition.
An IED weighing 2.5
kilograms fitted in a pressure cooker was recovered and defused
at Arampora on the general road in Kupwara District.
Police said they
have arrested a conduit of HM from Pattan area of Baramulla District.
The Director General
of Police Kuldeep Khoda expressed concern at the involvement of
minor children in the recent incidents of stone pelting.
As many as 569 Pakistani
militants were killed in the State in the past 12 years, the Jammu
and Kashmir Police said. The number of Pakistani militants killed
in the State declined after 9/11 terror strikes in the US, apparently
due to the pressure exerted by Washington on Islamabad to curb
militant activities on its soil.
The NIA arrested
two persons from Jammu and Kashmir for sending an email claiming
claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast on behalf
of the militant terror outfit HuJI.
An alleged operative
of HuJI, identified as Hilal Amin was detained by Security Agencies
from Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar District for allegedly sending
a terror email in the aftermath of the blast outside the Delhi
High Court.
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September 15 |
Pakistani troops
violated cease-fire and opened brief small arms fire on Indian
post along LoC in Pallanwala sector in Jammu District.
Army said surveillance
grid along the LoC has been strengthened to counter a possible
spurt in infiltration of militants from PoK ahead of winter snowfall
in the Valley.
NIA detained one
person from Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir in Connection
with the Delhi high Court blast (September 7, 2011). According
to sources, the detainee, identified as Aamir Abbas was a suspected
OGW of HuJI.
Unidentified assailants
shot at and inJured a NC worker, Ghulam Nabi Khan, near Parimpora
in Srinagar.
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September 16 |
Expressing satisfaction
over the peaceful summer in J&K Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said a process of broad-based consultation has been initiated
to find honourable settlement.
New Delhi appointed
Interlocutors on J&K ruled out any delay in submission of their
final report on 'political solution' of J&K, saying they will
submit it to the Government of India before October 12.
J&K assembly speaker
rejected an opposition PDP legislator's private member's bill
seeking deletion of an important provision in the State's constitution
that bars any legislation challenging J&K's status as India's
integral part.
NIA produced Amir
Abbas Dev in a court in Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir
and got his Police custody for seven days for interrogation.
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September 17 |
SFs neutralized a
militant hideout in Rangwar forests in Kupwara District and recovered
arms and ammunition.
Police arrested five
suspected militants from Sopore town in Baramulla District.
The Interlocutors
on J&K made a fresh offer to the separatists for talks and said
it was ready for a dialogue even at this hour.
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September 18 |
Concerned over repeated
infiltration attempts, the Centre has directed Security Forces
to intensify vigil along the border and take necessary steps to
foil any attempt by Pakistan-based elements to push terrorists
into India.
According to the
MHA estimate, infiltration attempts have shown a marginal increase
during 2010 in comparison to 2009.
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September 19 |
GOC, 16 Corps Lieutenant General
J. P. Nehra said that infiltration attempts have increased during
the past few months.
He also added, "Pakistan has become
an epicenter of global terrorism and failed to tackle growing
extremism on its own soil".
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September 20 |
The militants, backed by Pakistan
Rangers resorted to day light firing on a patrol party of the
BSF in forward area of Benglard in the Samba sector of the Samba
Distract killing a Sub Inspector and injuring a civilian.
Army neutralized a hideout of
the militants in Dachhigam reserve forests near Srinagar and recovered
a large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosive devices.
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September 21 |
SFs recovered an IED at Bhimber
Gali on Rajouri-Poonch road.
NIA brought all the three persons
who were arrested in connection with sending an e-mail claiming
responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast (September 7, 2011).
The Interlocutors on J&K said
that despite a lot of improvement over the past one year, the
situation in the State is still fragile and it needs to be consolidated.
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September 22 |
DGP Kuldeep Khoda ruled out the
presence of IM in Jammu and Kashmir.
On the issue of mass graves in
Poonch District, Khoda said, "These graveyards, let me tell you,
are in the area where there is habitation, and the buried include
militants, and people died of natural causes. If anybody has any
particular complaint then definitely we will look into it".
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September 23 |
IED was defused by a Bomb Disposal
Squad of Police along a canal at Satwari-Belicharana road in Jammu
District.
A joint team of MHA and CBI visited
Industrial Area of Gangyal (Jammu District) for supervision of
some gun factories and sought record of gun licenses issued from
Jammu District from the offices of Deputy Commissioner and SSP
in Jammu.
Shariq Ahmed, one of the three
teenagers who was arrested from Kishtwar District in Jammu and
Kashmir in connection with the bomb blast outside Delhi High Court
(September 7, 2011) was released by Jammu Kashmir Police.
The NIA got custody of Delhi High
Court blast accused Amir Abbas Dev until October 7 from a Special
Court in Delhi.
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September 24 |
Militants fired upon a Police
post at Warpora in Sopore in North Kashmir.
Police in Sogam and 28 Rashtriya
Rifles of Army recovered some explosive material hidden in a rusted
tin box near Khangoor Nar Doorosa in Kupwara District.
The Army and the Police averted
a major tragedy when they recovered and defused an IED, planted
by the militants, along the roadside at village Deri Leot under
Manjakote Police Station in Rajouri District.
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September 25 |
Police arrested two LeT militants
and the driver of their vehicle at Khirram in Anantnag District.
Two pistols, two hand grenades and some ammunition were recovered
from the possession of the arrested militants.
In Srinagar, SFs neutralized
a militant hideout in Nishat area.
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September 26 |
Three militants and a Policeman
were killed and two SF personnel were injured in an encounter
between SFs and the militants in Kralpora forests in the Kupwara
District.
A LeT militant shot and injured
a youth in Sopore area of Baramulla District. Police later identified
the militant as Muzaffar Ahmad Naiko alias Muza Moulvi.
SFs arrested a HM militant, identified
as Showkat Ahmad Dar alias Abrarul Islam, along with his two OGWs
at Samboora in the Pampore area of Pulwama District.
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September 27 |
APHC-G alleged that 70 per cent
TeH leadership was serving detention in different prisons since
2010 mass agitation.
Five militants and three SF personnel,
including an Army officer, were killed in an overnight gun battle
in Kupwara District.
Security agencies have arrested
98 persons and seized INR 12.3 million since 2009 as part of efforts
to check pumping of hawala money into Jammu and Kashmir for funding
secessionism and militancy, the State Government informed the
Legislative Assembly.
"I hope Pakistan gets serious
about dismantling all the terror training camps which are existing
in the country....We expect that Pakistan will live up to their
pronouncements," External affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
asserted that there is a misconception regarding unmarked graves
as they are being tagged as mass graves.
He urged both India and Pakistan
to jointly form Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to find
out answers to questions on various incidents that occurred during
the past over two decades of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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September 28 |
A militant shot dead Police Head
Constable Ghulam Mohammad at Batmaloo in Srinagar.
The gun battle between militants
and Security Forces that started in the Shamsbari forests near
the LoC three days ago continued.
NIA sought interrogation of a
top Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) militant, Asgar Ali, lodged
in Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu under the Public Safety Act following
reports that he could have some clues about September 7, 2011
Delhi High Court blast as some anti-national elements had visited
him in the jail in routine impersonating as his relatives earlier.
A trooper who was injured in
the gun battle on September 26 succumbed to injuries.
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September 29 |
Panchayat elections concluded
with final phase of polling in 42 constituencies spread over eight
Districts in Jammu Region.
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September 30 |
The gun-battle between SFs and
terrorists in the frontier District of Kupwara near the LoC entered
into fifth day after firing resumed early in the morning.
Army personnel arrested a Pakistani
militant of LeT after he infiltrated through Trehgam sector into
the District.
The NIA questioned Azhar Ali,
a militant of HM for second consecutive day in connection with
the Delhi High Court blast case at Kot Bhalwal high security jail
near Jammu.
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October 1 |
Four militants were killed as
Army foiled an infiltration bid near the LoC in the Keran sector
of Kupwara District in north Kashmir. The militants were killed
in a gunbattle that lasted for more than 36 hours, an army spokesman
said.
The GOC, 15 Corps Lieutenant
General S A Hasnain said that there is a nexus between the ISI,
Pakistan Army and terrorist organizations in training, arming
and psychological indoctrination of Pakistani youth for infiltrating
and carrying out acts of terror in Kashmir.
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October 2 |
Army eliminated one more infiltrator
near the LoC in the Keran sector of Kupwara District, taking the
number of infiltrators killed in the foiled infiltration bid in
Keran sector to five.
Security Forces launched a search
operation in the forest area of village Malwan in Kulgam District
and recovered 240 rounds of AK ammunition, one grenade and one
electronic detonator.
Jammu and Kashmir Government
said that 1,378 persons have been reported missing in the State
during the last 20 years.
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October 3 |
SFs eliminated a LeT 'divisional
commander', who was reactivating militancy in South Kashmir, in
the Shubdani village near Newa in Pulwama District. The slain
militant, identified as Abdul Rehman alias Rehman Bhai,
a Pakistani national, was also nominated as 'divisional commander'
of LeT (North Kashmir) after the death of Abdullah Uni on September
13.
In another encounter that is
still going on at Dardpura in the Trehgam sector of Kupwara District,
Army said that they killed one militant so far.
Elsewhere in the District, a
live 62-mm mortar shell was detected near Industrial Training
Institute (ITI) for women at Lalpora.
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October 4 |
The BSF shot dead an intruder
in Pargwal sector of Akhnoor tehsil (revenue unit) in Chamliyal
forward area on the IB in Ramgarh sector of Samba. The intruders
appeared to be making attempts to enter into this side. Pakistani
Rangers also resorted to cease-fire violation to give cover to
the infiltrators by opening firing at Rajpura, Chak Phagwari and
Jamun Bela posts of Pargwal from 9.30pm to 10.00 pm.
J&K Government said it has no
proposal to extend 74th Amendment of the Constitution to the State
as there were already legislations in place which are more or
less compliant with its provisions.
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October 6 |
SFs neutralized a militant hideout
in the forest area of Dever in Kupwara District and recovered
arms and ammunition.
JKLF announced formal unification
of its two factions with Pakistan-based Amanullah Khan to be the
lifetime "supreme head" of the group.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani said that his country will extend its "full political,
moral and diplomatic support" to Kashmiri people and underlined
the need to resolve the Kashmir issue through negotiations.
The NIA has detained one more
suspect from Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir for the September
7 blast outside the Delhi High Court. According to NIA officials,
the suspect, identified as Wasim, is one of the key conspirators
and has been studying in Bangladesh.
Results of the polygraph test
performed on at least one of the accused picked up from Kishtwar
in Jammu and Kashmir have indicated HuJI hand in the September
7, 2011 Delhi high court blast.
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October 7 |
Troops foiled an infiltration
attempt by a group of Pathan militants affiliated to LeT at Mitti
Dhara in Peer Badesar area of Keri sector in Rajouri District.
Amid intrusion bid by the militants, Pakistan Army resorted to
cease-fire violation to give cover to sneaking militants.
Security Forces arrested a HM
militant, Hilal Ahmad Khanday, from Achhabal in Anantnag District.
China and ISI supports PLA, the
Manipur based outfit, in its bid to form a 'Strong United Front'
along with CPI-Maoist and Kashmiri militants.
In third major arrest in Delhi
High Court blast case (September 7, 2011), the National Investigating
Agency (NIA) arrested a Kashmiri youth, who was pursuing studies
at Dhaka in Bangladesh from New Delhi soon after he alighted from
a flight at IGI airport in the capital. The arrestee, identified
as Wasim Akram Malik, a resident of Kishtwar District in Jammu
and Kashmir was arrested following clues gathered during investigations
by the NIA that he was a key conspirator in the blast along with
his brother, Junaid Akram Malik, a 'commander' of the militant
outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, who was absconding.
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October 8 |
The NIA has launched a manhunt
to trace Kashmiri medical student Wasim Akram Malik's younger
brother Junaid Akram, a HM militant, for his direct involvement
in the Delhi High Court blast on September 7.
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October 9 |
The SFs killed two HM militants
in the forests of Kangan in Ganderbal. Identify of the two militants
whose aliases were Obaid and Tahla could not be ascertained. Earlier,
the SFs had heard a radio communication between two holed up militants
and their handlers across the LoC in Pashto, a language spoken
in Afghanistan and FATA of Pakistan. SFs are ascertaining the
nationality of the two deceased militants but sources said they
might be from the group of Taliban who surrendered in Swat Valley
two years ago after Pakistani army launched a major offensive
against them.
A HM militant, identified as
Azad Hussain (code name Waseem), was eliminated in Marmat area
of Doda District. Police claimed that with the killing of Hussain,
a Pakistan trained militant surviving since 1998, Doda District
has been free of militancy now.
At least two to three HuJI militants
of Bangladesh were reported to have visited Kishtwar, Jammu and
New Delhi prior to September 7 blast outside Delhi High Court
along with Wasim Akram Malik alias 'Doctor Sahib', who was arrested
in New Delhi on October 7 by the NIA.
A team of NIA officials arrived
in Bangladesh to probe into the Delhi High Court blast case (September
7, 2011). The team, headed by an SP, left for Dhaka recently and
quizzed some of the Kashmiri students studying in Jalalabad Ragib
Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet, near Dhaka, claimed
officials.
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October 11 |
With increase in the presence
of militants across the LoC, the Army has deployed additional
troops in priority areas to counter infiltration in the State
ahead of snowfall. "According to Intelligence reports, strength
of militants across (the LoC) has crossed all proportions. At
present, opposite Shamsabari (range) and Uri, there are 600 militants,"
said General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps
Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
has asked the Union Home Minister not to plan AFSPA withdrawal
from entire state, but from sections where army is no longer required.
"Would want Disturbed Areas Act [DAA] and AFSPA to go," said Abdullah.
"We have to see the areas where the footprints of Army was minimal
and then go for revocation of DAA and subsequently AFSPA'', Omar
said, adds Daily Excelsior.
The Interlocutors on Jammu and
Kashmir are to submit their report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram
today (October 12).
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October 12 |
SFs in an ongoing operation eliminated
HM 'district commander', Mushtaq Khan alias Mushtaq Janghi
alias Mushtaq Killer, in an operation in Gutlibagh forests
of Ganderbal District. An associate of Mushtaq Killer was also
killed in the encounter but he has not been identified as yet.
Another fleeing militant, identified as Muzaffar, was arrested
by the SFs.
SFs busted a militant hideout
in Kokernag area of Anantnag District.
Advocating "meaningful autonomy"
and speedy development, the three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir
submitted their report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
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October 13 |
SFs recovered a consignment of
arms and ammunition from Khandi forests in Mahore area of Reasi
District.
Police arrested HM militant,
identified as Abdul Majeed Bhat alias Khurshid, in the
Handwara area of Kupwara District.
The General Officer Commanding
(GOC, Victor Force) Major General Gurdeep Singh said that the
October 12 killing of HM 'district commander' Mushtaq alias Mushtaq
Killer is a big success for the SFs in the Ganderbal District.
Director General of Police (DGP)
Kuldeep Khoda said that Police was working on all leads, including
a possible nexus between the LeT and KZF, who might have jointly
plotted the terror strike which was foiled with the recovery of
the car laden with explosives in Ambala in Haryana on October
12.
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October 14 |
Militants shot at and injured
a Policeman in the Hazratbal area of Srinagar. The Policeman was
on security duty in Tailbal bus station in Hazratbal.
SFs recovered a consignment of
ammunition and explosives from Khanetar Top in Poonch District.
16 SF personnel were injured
in stone-pelting by protesters agitating against an alleged blasphemous
comment made by a professor in Bhaderwah town of Doda District.
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October 16 |
Police said that militants hurled
a grenade on a Police party at Sanat Nagar Chowk in Srinagar.
The grenade missed the intended target and exploded on the road
without causing any damage.
Security Forces in Srinagar recovered
huge quantity of material used for making IEDs.
Police arrested the LeT militant
who killed a Police constable in Hazratbal area of Srinagar on
October 14.
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October 17 |
SFs killed a militant in Yachgoose
village in Pulwama District.
Pointing out that militancy in
the State has come down by 50 percent, DGP, Kuldeep Khoda cautioned
against complacency and said the work on the front was not yet
over.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that the current year in the State has been peaceful so far but
this gives no assurance that the coming year will be a better
one.
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October 18 |
Accusing politicians in J&K of
exploiting the youth during the last 20 years of unrest in the
State, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said time has come for youngsters
to repulse all such attempts.
APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani expressed his willingness to hold talks with the Centre
over Kashmir issue.
HM is slowly fading away as its
remaining 'commanders' and cadres are being taken out on a regular
interval by SFs.
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October 19 |
The Army has said the issue of
withdrawal of AFSPA from peaceful areas of Jammu and Kashmir has
not even come up for discussions in the unified command or core
group meetings of the SFs.
UJC, an amalgam of 13 militant
groups, chairman and HM 'supreme commander' Syed Salah-ud-Din
has asked separatist leaders not to enter in to any kind of bilateral
dialogue with New Delhi.
NIA, investigating the September
7 Delhi blast, seized five mobile telephones of Wasim Akram Malik,
a Medical student, his two relatives and two associates from Kishtwar
and Jammu but another mobile telephone and a laptop used by him
at Dhaka, Bangladesh remained untraced.
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October 20 |
APHC-G chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani rebuffed UJC leader and HM chief Syed Salah-ud-Din's appeal
against taking to the Union Government, saying he does not take
"dictations''.
The Jammu and Kashmir Government
has amended the Public Safety Act.
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October 21 |
SFs arrested a HM militant, Abdul
Gani Deedad alias Abu Salfi, from Rajpora area of Pulwama
District.
The SFs recovered one AK-47 along
with ammunition from a terrorist hideout in Karusan Barnau forest
of Kupwara District.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that laws like AFSPA and DAA will be removed from some areas in
the next few days.
NIA disclosed for the first time
terror outfit HM role in the September 7, 2011 Delhi High Court
Blast incident and issued a 'wanted' notice for three of its cadre
- all residents of Kishtwar.
Stepping up its hunt for key conspirators
of the Delhi High Court blast case, the NIA disclosed for the
first time terror outfit HM role in the incident and issued a
'wanted' notice for three of its cadres.
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October 22 |
Army foiled an infiltration attempt
by the militants under the cover of firing by Pakistani troops
at the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch District.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said all measures
would be taken to maintain lasting peace in the State. Wasim Akram
Malik, who masterminded the Delhi High Court blast of September
7, 2011 has revealed that the attack was carried out by two Pakistanis
from Lahore District of Punjab province.
Asking the Union Government to
have an "active engagement" with Pakistan, J&K Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah said without this a permanent and lasting solution
to the Kashmir issue is unlikely to emerge.
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October 23 |
An infiltrator was killed as troops
thwarted an intrusion bid on LoC at Lam in Nowshera sector of
Rajouri District.
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October 24 |
APHC-G chairman, Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, said Kashmir, in all probabilities, was going to be a
part of Pakistan "had the Indian troops not landed here on the
day."
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October 25 |
Militants carried out a series
of attacks in Srinagar and South Kashmir injuring four SFs personnel.
Militants also hurled a grenade
on a Police bunker guarding the Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch
of Zainapora in Pulwama.
Militants carried out another
attack in General Bus Stand Anantnag. A Police constable Anzar
Ahmad Mughal, who was on duty in the bus stand was fired at and
injured from close range by militants.
SFs joined searches launched by
Police to apprehend three most wanted militants involved in a
blast outside Delhi High Court.
Two LeT militants, Bilal Ahmad
Mir and Javid Ahmad Mir, were arrested and two grenades seized
from them at a checkpoint on Court Road in Sopore town of Baramulla
District.
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October 26 |
Suspected militants hurled a grenade
in Goriwan market in Bijbehara area of Anantnag District injuring
five civilians.
Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, a militant
outfit which is almost defunct now, claimed responsibility for
the first two blasts of October 25.
CM Omar Abdullah said withdrawal
of the AFSPA from certain areas of the State was in no way an
effort to undermine the role of the Army.
|
October 27 |
Police have busted a LeT module
that carried out attacks at Baramulla and Batamaloo on August
25 in which two persons were killed and 13 others were injured.
|
October 28 |
The head of DeM, Aasiya Andrabi,
was released from the Central Jail after over a year but was soon
re-arrested.
The CRPF said the situation in
Jammu and Kashmir has improved.
State Cabinet approved amendments
to the PSA.
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October 29 |
SFs arrested 11 Bangladeshi nationals
and a civilian from Orissa when they were trying to exfiltrate
to Pakistan from the IB at Jabowal and Nikowal in Arnia sector
of Jammu District.
Army thwarted infiltration attempt,
on the LoC at Chamba Gap in Lam area of Nowshera sector in Rajouri
District forcing three militants to retrieve to PoK.
A militant escaped after an encounter
with Police at Gursai in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch District.
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October 31 |
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
backed J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's desire to lift the AFSPA
from few Districts of the State.
The report submitted by the Centre's
interloctutors on J&K is being examined by the Union Home Ministry
and a decision on its recommendations would be taken in consultation
with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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November 1 |
At least five civilians were injured
in a grenade attack by militants in Kupwara District.
Police defused a grenade near
a poultry farm in Trehgam village in Kupwara District.
Four traders engaged in business
across the LoC have been booked by ED in connection with alleged
hawala racket for LeT.
|
November 2 |
Police arrested two HM militants,
who had helped the militants involved in September 7, 2011 blast
outside Delhi High Court, from Ramnagar area of Udhampur District.
|
November 3 |
Army said that the AFSPA cannot
be revoked from any part of J&K till the proxy war in the State
abetted by Pakistan continued.
After two National Highways, CCTV
cameras are being installed at all militancy-infested and sensitive
towns across the State to keep a vigil on anti-national elements.
Key fugitive conspirators - Junaid
Akram Malik, Shakir Hussain Sheikh alias Chota Hafiz and
Arif Kamal - in the Delhi High Court blast case used to report
to a Hindu militant, Subhas Kumar Shan, of terror outfit HM till
July this year, the NIA investigators have learnt.
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November 4 |
A sharp increase has been witnessed
in ceasefire violations in 2011 on the LoC in twin border Districts
of Rajouri and Poonch by the Pakistan Army.
The highest number of 30 ceasefire
violations has been reported from the LoC in Rajouri and Poonch
Districts alone during 10 months of 2011.
The number of infiltration attempts
made from different parts of the LoC in the two Districts has
also gone up to 42 but number of successful intrusion bids had
considerably come down or reduced virtually to zero.
The illegal trade and smuggling
of narcotic and psychotropic substances, which was going to attain
alarming proportion, has been contained up to larger extent during
the past four months with Jammu Police.
A local court in Srinagar granted
bail to two 12-year-old boys, while another was remanded to a
juvenile home. The three boys were detained by Jammu and Kashmir
Police in October 2011 on the charge of stone-pelting.
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November 5 |
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
there was always scope for re-imposition of AFSPA if things became
difficult after its withdrawal from certain areas of the State.
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November 6 |
A contractor with military engineering
services has approached the Kangra Police regarding a letter reportedly
sent by LeT, seeking information related to Army's 9 Corps based
at Young Officers Leave cantonment in Kangra.
India said Pakistan is continuing
to harbour terrorists on its soil and despite repeated requests
it has taken no steps to dismantle the terror infrastructure there.
According to intelligence reports,
around 2,500 terrorists were active in training camps and launching
pads in PoK and some other areas in Pakistan and that all of them
had been primarily trained to infiltrate into India.
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November 7 |
An unidentified pistol borne militant
tried to open fire on a Recruit Constable near Mehindi Kadal area
in the Anantnag town. The bid was foiled as he was overpowered
before he could open fire.
At least 35 persons, including
SSP (Anantnag) Ramesh Kumar Jalla, SP (Operations) Zahid Malik,
Deputy SP (Operations) Tanveer Jeelani, Sattion House Officer
(Anantnag) Liyaqat Khan and Assistant Sub-Inspector Riyaz Ahmed
along with a Commandant of CRPF and four Police Constables, were
wounded as violent clashes broke out between groups of youth and
SFs in Anantnag District immediately after the culmination of
Eid prayers.
Taking note of huge construction
activities across the border by Pakistan, which is resulting in
erection of 97 additional 'observation post' towers and 162 barracks,
a Parliamentary standing committee on home affairs has come out
with a number of suggestions for the Government to counter such
logistic build-up and asked it to urgently implement the proposal
for construction of an earthen 'bund' on the home side of the
fencing.
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November 8 |
A hideout of the militants was
neutralized in the Lolab valley of Kupwara District.
|
November 9 |
Army thwarted an infiltration
attempt by the militants on the LoC at Peer Gali in Balakote area
of Mendhar sector in Poonch District.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
there's "no harm" in withdrawing the AFSPA from parts of Jammu
and Kashmir.
|
November 10 |
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
his Government has the authority to revoke the AFSPA and sought
a 'workable' solution from the Army.
|
November 11 |
The SFs recovered a large quantity
of explosives from upper reaches of Jhawa in the Keshwan area
of Kishtwar District.
|
November 12 |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said a decision on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's
demand for partial withdrawal of AFSPA has to be discussed by
those dealing SFs in an objective way.
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November 13 |
SFs neutralized a hideout of HM
militants at village Sil Comma in the Budhal area of Rajouri District.
LeT Srinagar 'commander', identified
as Bilal Ahmad Dar alias Huzaifa, was arrested from the
outskirts of Sopore town in Baramulla District.
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November 14 |
Defence minister A K Antony said
that there is no deadline to lift AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir.
When asked if the AFSPA issue would come up at a meeting of the
Cabinet Committee on Security this week, he said: "Don't put any
time limit."
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November 15 |
A SPO was killed while a 'divisional
commander' of HM and one of the alleged conspirators of September
7 Delhi High Court blast, Mohammad Amin Bhat alias Jehangir Saroori,
escaped along with his body-guard, Mohammad Riaz, after a heavy
exchange of gun battle between the SFs and militants at Darang
forests in Dachchan Haddal area of Kishtwar District.
HM supremo and UJC chief Syed
Salahudin and Jehangir Saroori had reportedly masterminded the
High Court blast in which three more HM militants were still absconding.
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November 16 |
SFs recovered cache of arms and
ammunition from Najwan forest area in Ganderbal District.
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November 17 |
SF shot dead a 'commander' of
HM, identified as Munir Kalas, in an encounter in the Shopian
District.
SFs detected and defused an IED,
weighing five kilograms, planted by militants at Lassipora on
Kupwara-Sogam road in Kupwara District.
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November 19 |
Police arrested one Imtiyaz Ahmad
Zanda, a person from Srinagar and recovered fake currency amounting
to INR 71, 000.
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah
reiterated his stand on the revocation of the AFSPA from some
parts of the State, saying that his Government can go ahead with
it after addressing the Army's concerns.
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November 20 |
Stone pelting incidents were reported
from some areas of the Srinagar city as well as its. However,
nobody was injured in these incidents. In the morning, a group
of youth appeared in the Maisuma area and they started pelting
stones on the SFs present there.
Government made it clear that
revocation of the AFSPA Act from Jammu and Kashmir could be some
time away; saying consensus will have to be evolved among all
stakeholders on the crucial issue as positions were not "unified"
at the moment at the Centre. "Ultimately, we need to find consensus
among all the stakeholders," a Government source said.
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November 21 |
Stating that the gradual withdrawal
of the AFSPA was part of the aspiration of people, Jammu and Kashmir
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah refused to set a deadline for revocation
of AFSPA.
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November 22 |
The Army foiled an infiltration
attempts by the militants from across the LoC in Krishna Ghati
sector of Poonch District.
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November 23 |
SFs neutralized a hideout of the
HM militants and recovered a large quantity of explosive material
at Ari in Mandi sector of Poonch District.
Ninety-one civilians were killed
and 494 others injured in Police firing in Jammu and Kashmir in
2010, the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) was informed.
Rashtriya Rifles (RR), the largest
counter insurgency force in the country, has eliminated 65 militants
and arrested 35 of them in anti-terrorist operations in Jammu
and Kashmir by November 2011.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said
that the State Government was ready to amend Ranbir Panel Code
(RPC) to make it at par with Criminal Penal Code (CrPC) to provide
legal protection and immunity to armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir
at par with other States.
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November 24 |
Three persons, including a Territorial
Army trooper, were injured when militants fired indiscriminately
at Naid Khai market in the Sumbal area of Bandipora District.
Jammu and Kashmir Police refuted
the report of a New Delhi-based human rights group alleging rights
violation in the arrest of minors saying those mentioned in it
face criminal charges.
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November 25 |
Militants shot at and injured
a ruling NC party block president and Sarpanch (head of
the Panchayat, village level local self Government institution),
Abdul Salam, in the township of Tral in Pulwama District. Reports
said Abdul Salam, resident of Panzoo-Tral, was fired upon by militants
at bus stand Tral.
Army thwarted an infiltration
attempt by the militants at Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch District
forcing the group of militants, trying to intrude into this side
from across the Line of Control (LoC), to retrieve to Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Police arrested over a dozen stone
pelting protesters, including some minors and a press photographer,
in the Saraf Kadal area of Srinagar.
Police said that they arrested
a person who was about to hand over the snatched pistol of the
MI trooper to LeT militants in the Sopore area of Baramulla District.
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November 27 |
Police said that Jammu and Kashmir
has witnessed a six-time fall in demonstrations called by separatists
in 2011 as compared to the 2010.
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November 28 |
Police arrested two militants,
identified as Aijaz Ahmad Hamdani and Javid Ahmad Sheikh, from
Hazratbal area of Srinagar and recovered two grenades from their
possession.
Noting that terrorism and insurgency
threaten the very foundation of democracy in Jammu and Kashmir,
Minister of State for Home Nasir Aslam Wani emphasised on better
intelligence network and proper vigilance to meet this challenge.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram
said India had asked the US about LeT operative David Headley's
links to US state agencies, but Washington had not been "willing"
to share that information.
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November 29 |
Government informed the Lok Sabha
(Lower House of Parliament) that 45 cease-fire violations were
reported in 2011 along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and
Kashmir.
There is around 50 per cent decrease
in the grenade attacks, explosions and rocket attacks in 2011
up to November 15 as compared to the corresponding figure in 2010,
an unnamed senior Police official said.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said that the
Jammu and Kashmir Police will take all measures to ensure lasting
peace in the State.
JuD vowed to convert Pakistan
into a Taliban state and to train young people to wage jihad (holy
war) against America and India.
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November 30 |
Principal Sessions Judge Ramban
M A Chowdhary awarded life-imprisonment to militant Abdul Waheed,
son of Ahmedulla Naik of Banihal, who committed the murder of
Zarina Bano for not providing the food as demanded by him.
Government said that around 2,500
terrorists are present in a number of launch pads in PoK and Pakistan.
Union Home Minister Home Minister
P Chidambaram said the efforts of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah are to denotify the DAA from some places in the
State, a move which will pave way for removal of AFSPA.
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December 1 |
MHA has moved the Union Cabinet
for deploying Rashtriya Rifles (RR) units and inducting additional
helicopters for logistics in Naxal [Left-Wing Extremist]-affected
areas of the country particularly Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and
Maharashtra.
The Army, however, is at slight
variance with the home ministry proposal as it does not want to
disturb the RR counter-insurgency grid in J&K.
A project, codenamed 'Karachi
Project', undertaken by the Pakistani spy agency, ISI to spread
terror in India using local recruits through LeT network will
soon find its place in the charge sheet to be filed by the NIA
against American-Pakistani terrorist David Coleman Headley and
his accomplices, including Pakistani serving and retired Army
officials, in the Mumbai terror attack case (November 26, 2008,
aka 26/11).
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December 2 |
Militants shot at and critically
injured a NC block president in the downtown Srinagar. The victim,
identified as Ghulam Ahmad Lone, is the president of the Safa
Kadal block in Srinagar.
SFs neutralized a hideout of the
militants in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar District and recovered
a large quantity of explosive material and ammunition.
SFs arrested a Kashmiri militant,
Zahoor Ahmed, along with his Pakistani wife and two children as
soon as they landed at Jammu Railway Station from Amarnath Express
after flying to Kathmandu in Nepal from Pakistan.
Two Bangladeshi nationals were
arrested at Kanachak area of Jammu when they were trying to ex-filtrate
to Pakistan.
Clashes broke out in parts of
downtown Srinagar between stone throwing protesters and the SFs.
According to a State Home Ministry,
dip in militancy-related incidents has resulted in 55 per cent
decrease in casualties in Jammu and Kashmir in 2011.
There has been nearly 50 per cent
fall in militancy-related incidents this year in the State with
no such activities taking place in three Districts and 13 others
registering just single digit terrorism cases.
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December 4 |
Use of non-lethal weapons while
dealing with demonstrators and stone-pelters in Kashmir Valley
has reduced casualties to civilians and SF, an unnamed Police
official said.
In 2010, 112 civilians and Policemen
died and 1,049 civilian and 4,000 SF personnel were injured in
law and order disturbances in the Valley, he said, adding that
of these 825 SFs suffered critical injuries due to stone pelting.
Pakistani troops fired at Indian posts in Karnah
Sector near the LoC in the Kupwara District in the night of December
4, official said on December 5.
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December 5 |
Reports indicate that a number
of militants from Kashmir Valley and others parts of the State,
including undivided Doda District and twin border Districts of
Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region, have also managed to get passports
in Pakistan and were awaiting an opportunity to fly either to
Dhaka in Bangladesh or Kathmandu in Nepal to cross over to India
to reach Jammu and Kashmir.
Number of tourists visiting Kashmir
Valley so far in 2011 has surpassed the nearly seven lakh mark
set before the eruption of militancy in the State in 1990. "In
the history of Kashmir, we have not witnessed so many tourists.
Even during the pre-militancy years we would receive a maximum
of seven lakh tourists. This year we have received a record number
of tourists," Tourism minister Nawang Rigzin Jora said. Although
Jora did not reveal the exact number of the tourists, according
to officials the number had crossed a million.
Asserting that special laws like
the AFSPA had served their purpose, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah on December 5 said there would be no let up in his
struggle for gradual revocation of these laws from the State.
"There will be no let up in my efforts to gradually see off laws
like AFSPA from the state, which have served their purpose, to
make people relish the fruits of peace," he told a public meeting.
Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui (27),
originally from Darbhanga (Bihar), was arrested from Delhi on
November 22; Gauhar Aziz Khomani (31), originally from Darbhanga
(Bihar), was arrested in Delhi on November 23; Gayur Ahmad Jamali
(21), originally from Madhubani (Bihar), was arrested from Darbhanga
on November 24; Mohd Adil alias Ajmal (40), from Karachi,
trained by JeM as a shooter, and sent by the Bhatkal brothers
first to Nepal and then to India to recruit local Muslims for
terror attacks, was held from Madhubani on November 25; Abdur
Rehman (19) from Darbhanga, was arrested in Chennai on November
27; and Mohd Irshad Khan (52) from Samastipur (Bihar) , was arrested
in Chennai on November 27. Khan's daughter was married to Yasin.
It's in his house in Okhla in Delhi, that Yasin is believed to
have been staying for at least six months. Security agencies are
looking for four others from Madhubani.
Troops thwarted an infiltration
attempt by a group of five Pakistani militants on the LoC)in Mandi
sector of Poonch District forcing the militants, equipped with
weapons, to retrieve despite heavy firing brought down on forward
Indian positions by Pakistani troops.
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December 6 |
In 2009-11, 117 cease-fire violations
were reported along the LoC, of which 28 were in 2009, 44 in 2010
and 45 between January and November 2011. Nine Security Force
personnel were killed and around 52 injured in various firing
incidents reported in 2008-11 along the International Border.
Besides, two civilian porters were killed in cross LoC firing
during this period.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda said there
has been fall in militancy-related incidents in 2011 in the State
with the overall improvement of security situation. "There has
been decrease in militancy-related incidents in the State. As
compared to 350 such cases in 2010 in a period of 11 months, 185
incidents were reported this year till November- end," Khoda told
reporters. He said there is roughly 47-48 per cent decline in
incidents of violence in 2011 as compared to 2010.
He, however, maintained the infiltration
bids were still being made from across the border and instructions
were being given to them (militants) to enter the State. He also
asserted that there are still training camps working across the
border where militants get the armed training. He said there has
been no "intentional and capability changes" from across the border
and "continuous infiltration attempts" were being made by the
perpetrators of terrorism.
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December 7 |
Unidentified militants in the
night abducted and later killed a tractor driver, Mushtaq Ahmad
Ganaie, 26, in Pulwama District. The dead body was recovered from
Hajan Payee in Pulwama on December 7.
Militants hurled a grenade towards
a SFs vehicle on the National Highway at Goriwan near Bijbehara
in Anantnag District in evening . The grenade missed the intended
target and fell on the road resulting in the injuries to one Abdul
Gani Bhat.
SFs neutralized a hideout of the
militants at Nullian forest in Sheendara area of Poonch District.
Recoveries made from the natural hideout included two UBGLs, 14
UBGL grenades and 208 rounds of AK-47. Another hideout of the
militants was neutralized at Chorgala in Kalakote tehsil
(revenue unit) of Rajouri District. Recoveries made included one
pistol along with one magazine and one round, 94 rounds of AK-47,
one Thuraya satellite telephone and an ammunition pouch.
The US-based Kashmiri separatist
leader and head of KAC Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai on December 7 pleaded
guilty to federal charges of spying for the ISI and illegally
lobbying the Congress to influence the American policy on Kashmir.
Fai continues to be under house
arrest till the time of his sentencing. His sentencing is scheduled
for March 9. Fai was arrested on spying charges on July 19 and
then put under house arrest.
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December 8 |
Security Forces neutralized a
hideout of the militants at Thanpeer forest area of Mandi sector
in Poonch District and recovered a consignment of arms. Recoveries
made from the hideout included three anti-personnel mines, one
wireless set and 10 antennas.
Core Group comprising top brass
of all security and intelligence agencies reviewed security scenario
in Jammu region, including the LoC and the International Border
(IB), and chalked out a strategy to neutralize remaining 34 active
militants besides the Over Ground Workers (OGWs).
Jammu and Kashmir Police is to
get non-lethal weapons and ammunitions to deal with the mob during
violent protests in the State in order to ensure zero causality
and less injury to both sides.
Minister of State for Home and
Urban Development Nasir Aslam Wani on December 6 announced the
forthcoming polls to various municipal corporations and committees
in Jammu and Kashmir would be held March 2012.
The NIA has said that HM backed
and PoK based Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Fund Trust (JKART)
is funding terror in Jammu and Kashmir. The agency, which registered
an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), named two Pakistani
nationals who are heading the JKART. Chairman of the trust Mahboob-ul-Haq
and general secretary Masroor Dar have been named by the NIA in
the FIR.
Investigators allege that JKART
has pumped in more than INR 800 million into the Valley in the
name of relief and rehabilitation work, diverted to finance terror.
Founded in 1990, the JKART runs a refugees camp in PoK.
NIA has unearthed a hawala
operation of front organisations of Pakistan-based terror outfits
LeT and HM for providing money to families of terror operatives
killed all over India. The NIA has detected in the last few years
a well-oiled hawala operation to tune of around INR one Billion.
Ministry of Home Affairs has decided
to treat threats to the country's economic security as a terrorist
act and prosecute non-governmental organisations that divert funds
to help terrorists and Naxalites under the anti-terror law. The
move - that also counts dealing in counterfeit currency as a terror
act - is part of the first set of changes to the anti-terror law
- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) - that was last
amended after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. In its new form,
the Government has also decided to raise the duration of the ban
on terrorist groups from two years to five years.
SFs conducted an extensive search
in Sheen Dara region of Poonch District and seized arms and ammunition.
The seizure included rounds of AK 47, 15 UBGL grenades and two
UBGL Launchers, belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants.
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December 9 |
Police arrested one Ali Mohammad
Wani, a LeT militant, from Natipora Sangam village in Anantnag
District. Three grenades and AK ammunition were recovered from
the house in which he was living.
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December 10 |
A SPO was allegedly shot dead
by unidentified militants in Kishtwar District. The SPO, identified
as Mohammad Hanief of Thathri, was attacked in village Sujna in
the upper reaches of Palmar.
APDP, a valley-based human rights
group, has admitted that militants were responsible for more enforced
disappearances than the SFs. The APDP submitted a list of 132
cases of enforced disappearances in remote Banihal area to the
state human rights commission (SHRC).
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December 11 |
J&K Minister for Rural Development
and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar escaped an attempt
on his life by militants who attacked his entourage as he arrived
at his Nawab Bazaar residence in Nawakadal area of Srinagar killing
one PSO, Gulzar Ahmad, while two other PSOs and a civilian were
injured in the firing incident.
No militant organization has
claimed responsibility for the attack so far but the security
agencies said that LeT and HM have been operating in Srinagar
and they suspected that they could be behind the attack. This
is second attack on any NC leader in past two weeks and third
in J&K during past fortnight.
J&K Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah
stated that "no deadline" had been fixed for revoking the AFSPA.
He admitted the Army's resistance was the prime reason for the
delay. The Army opposed the move saying such a revocation would
hamper its anti-insurgency operations. Abdullah said the issue
was being discussed and hoped a way out would be found soon.
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December 12 |
Pakistan-based JuM claimed responsibility
for the attack on Jammu and Kashmir minister Ali Mohammad Sagar
on December 11 in which a Policeman was killed.
About INR seven million was paid
by the MHA as remuneration and other expenses in engaging year-long
services of three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir.
The State Government will conduct
verification of madrassas getting Government aid in the State.
Government said the issue of partial
revocation of AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir was discussed in a
meeting of United Headquarters in November and maintained that
decisions on security matters are taken after consultation with
concerned States and SFs.
The Army said revocation of Disturbed
Area Act by the Jammu and Kashmir Government will not affect the
applicability of AFSPA in the State as the two laws are not interlinked.
GOC, 15 Corps, Lieutenant General
Syed Atta Hasnain, said the militants are active in border areas
and waiting to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir during the snowfall
in the valley.
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December 13 |
SFs neutralized a militant hideout
and recovered a large quantity of arms and explosive material
at Rangwar in Poonch District.
Three militants were arrested
by Police in Baramulla District.
Investigations revealed that a
HM militant, Billal Ahmed, who was one of the associates of three
militants wanted by NIA in connection with September 7 blast outside
Delhi High Court, had trapped SPO Mohammad Hanief and killed him
in Kishtwar in the night of December 10.
Government effort to connect the
youth of Jammu and Kashmir with rest of India is falling flat.
Four months after the Union Cabinet approved a higher education
scholarship scheme for students of the State, the Government is
yet to find a way to disburse the money to the students this year.
Jammu and Kashmir Police formally
charged 20 persons for setting ablaze public property, worth billions
of Indian currency, at Tangmarg in Baramulla District during 2010
summer unrest.
Stressing on people's support
in combating crime and anti-social activities, DGP Kuldeep Khoda
said it was due to their cooperation that peace had revisited
the Kashmir Valley.
Jammu and Kashmir Government sought
from the Centre the release of INR 6.46 billion and delinking
funding from urban reforms for at least two years so that various
projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
in the State could be completed in time.
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December 14 |
Army foiled an infiltration attempt
on the LoC at Tarkundi in Bhimber Gali area of Rajouri sector.
Troops conducted search operation
in dense forest area of Waoman near village Pathalan, about 12
kilometers from Banihal town in Ramban District. A well concealed
natural cave hideout of LeT measuring seven feet by four feet
and three feet in height having an entrance of 1.5 feet was neutralized
during the operation.
Tariq Ahmad Bhat (24), a resident
of Rang Hamam in Nowhatta area of Srinagar, and a shopkeeper at
Gojwara Chowk, who was severely assaulted by a group of stone
pelters on December 3, succumbed to his injuries.
Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister
Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed has ordered an inquiry into allegations
that Central Government funds meant to modernise seminaries may
have been allotted to non-existent institutions.
GOC of Srinagar-based 15 Corps,
Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain said there is danger of some
militants entering Kashmir from Afghanistan after withdrawal of
American troops from Afghanistan.
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December 15 |
Army arrested two militants at
Mandir Gala Kandi Army check post in Rajouri District and recovered
two magazines and 37 rounds of AK-47 and five mobile phones from
their possession.
SFs neutralized two militant modules,
one each of HM and LeT, who were targeting Police and politicians
in Awantipora of Pulwama District.
Police also neutralized an HM
module operating in Tral area of Pulwama District.
Police and Army arrested a Pakistan
trained HM militant, Manzoor Ahmad Lone alias Jehangir,
near Khakipora, Krimhoora in Handwara (Kupwara District).
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December 16 |
On the issue of the continuing
demand for revocation of AFSPA, Defence Minister A. K. Antony
said, "Even though violence levels have reduced substantially,
attempts at infiltration are still persisting... We can't ignore
the threat".
GOC 15 Corps Lieutenant General
Ata Hasnain said that, Pakistan will stoke trouble in Kashmir
once US-led forces exit Afghanistan.
The 'chairman' of APHC-G, Syed
Ali Shah Geelani, stated that the separatist leaders be free and
allow their political activities to see who is favoured in the
society.
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December 17 |
SFs launched an operation at Mrijunar
forests in the Kokernag area in Anantnag District and recovered
arms and ammunition.
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December 18 |
SFs neutralized a militants' hideout
at Simthan Bijbehara in Anantnag District and recovered huge quantity
of arms and ammunition.
In Kupwara, the SFs neutralized
a militant hideout in the forest area of Drangsoo at Qalamabad.
The militants used a fire extinguisher
to fabricate an IED and plant it under a culvert near DAV Public
School, few meters ahead of Sher-i-Kashmir bridge, about two kilometers
from border town of Poonch District on Poonch-Jammu road.
SFs arrested two HM militants,
identified as Fayaz Ahmad Bhat and Manzoor Ahmed Ammnar, from
Baramulla District.
Intelligence inputs received by
various Army formations in Jammu and Kashmir appear to suggest
that infiltration is on the rise after the State Government's
move for a partial withdrawal of AFSPA.
Reports indicate that with bund
along the IB with Pakistan is proving beneficial for the anti-national
elements and militants to secretly watch the movement of the BSF
personnel, 2/3rd length of the bund has been demolished so far
and remaining would be razed in the next phase soon after receiving
nod from the Border Management Department of the MHA.
Leading a vitriolic attack against
India, JuD chief Hafiz Saeed vowed to continue jihad to oust Indian
forces from Jammu and Kashmir.
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December 19 |
At least 100 guerrillas were waiting to infiltrate
into the Kashmir Valley from across the LoC, the Army, quoting
information gleaned by intelligence agencies, said.
Lok Sabha was informed that Jammu and Kashmir
Government has in the last five years sought sanction for prosecution
against Army personnel in 24 cases under the AFSPA of which 19
were rejected as no prima facie case was made out against the
accused officials.
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December 20 |
Security Forces recovered a cache of arms and
ammunition from a natural hideout at village Chalad in the Mahore
tehsil (revenue unit) of Reasi District.
Upset and hurt over publication of an Urdu textbook
by the State school education board depicting a Policeman carrying
a lathi with the caption describing him as a zalim (tyrant),
the State Police charged the chief of the education board and
five other officials with sedition, criminal conspiracy and defamation
at Parimpora Station.
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December 21 |
Government gave its sanction to the NIA to charge
sheet nine persons, including two serving ISI officers, Major
Iqbal and Major Samir Ali, Pakistani-American LeT operative David
Coleman Headley, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, al Qaida operative Ilyas
Kashmiri, for plotting terror strikes in India, including the
26/11 Mumbai attack.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that Pakistan
was committed to pursuing a constructive, sustained and result-oriented
process of engagement with India, including on the issue of Kashmir.
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December 22 |
One person - either a militant or a Pakistani
trooper - was killed on Pakistan side as troops foiled Pakistan
Army backed infiltration bid by a group of three militants through
the LoC at Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch District. Pakistan Army
violated cease-fire while trying to give cover to these militants
to sneak into Indian side.
Troops neutralized a hideout of slain HM 'commander'
Qari Zubair [Zubair was killed in February 2011] at Orka, about
six kilometers from Banihal, in Doda District.
Two HM militants who traveled on Pakistani passports
to Nepal from Pakistan on their way to the Bandipora District
were arrested in the outskirts of Bandipora town. Two Pakistani
passports, Nepal visa, PKR 6,000 and few SIM cards were recovered
from their possession.
Police arrested a BSNL employee, Sajad Ahmad Dar,
for providing SIM cards on fake names to the HM militants in Sopore
are of Baramulla District.
SFs have recovered a dead shell from fields in
Shahpur village of Mandi revenue unit in Poonch District, according
to Kashmir Times.
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December 23 |
SFs arrested three HM militants, identified as
Mohammad Amir Mir alias Umar Jan, Tariq Ahmad Bhat alias
Mohammad Saleem and Fayaz Ahmad Mir alias Umar from Kreeri area
of Baramulla District.
A HE-36 Grenade was detected by people and recovered
by police from Chilla Danga in Samba District on December 23,
according to Daily Excelsior.
Pakistan Army resorted to major ceasefire violation
at South of Haji Peer in mountains falling under Sabjian area
of Poonch District, causing minor damage to some Indian posts.
This was 42nd ceasefire violation by Pakistan Army during 2011,
an Army official said.
According to the official data of J&K Home Department,
militants have triggered as many as 11,970 blasts to target security
personnel and civilians in the state since 1990, reports Greater
Kashmir. A total of 1,766 people were killed and 15,685 others
injured in these blasts, it mentioned.
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December 24 |
Islamic Movement of Kashmir (IMK) militants shot
dead a National Conference (NC) worker, identified as Bashir Ahmad
Dar (40), at Rekka Chowk in Batamaloo area of Srinagar. The militants
have threatened to continue to carry out such attacks against
mainstream political parties. This is for the third time that
this unknown militant outfit has claimed responsibility for any
strike in Kashmir.
The security agencies suspected that the IMK might
be a shadow outfit of either LeT or HM. But so far the investigations
carried out by them have not established any clue about this outfit
and its links to LeT or HM.
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December 25 |
SFs in Baramulla District arrested a HM militant,
Manzoor Ahmad Lone, and recovered arms and ammunition from his
possession.
According to a State Home Ministry data over 4,000
militants, including 276 self-styled commanders, have surrendered
during the last 22 years in Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports indicate that 900 to 1,000 militants are
ready to sneak in from PoK. This figure is double the number of
militants who were poised to infiltrate in 2010.
Inspector General of Police (IGP, Jammu Range)
Dilbagh Singh said Doda and Reasi Districts in Jammu and Kashmir
have been freed of militancy.
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December 26 |
China has increased the presence of its military
engineers in PoK, Major General K.H. Singh said. Although the
exact number of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) men and engineers
engaged in building infrastructure across the LoC is not known,
their number has increased in recent months, he added.
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December 28 |
Army recovered arms and ammunition from forward
village of Chakla in Pallanwalla area of Akhnoor tehsil (revenue
unit) in Jammu District.
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December 29 |
Reiterating his demand for revoking the AFSPA
in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah mocked the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for indulging in "doublespeak"
on the issue.
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December 30 |
A BSF trooper was injured in firing from Pakistan
side at the IB at Khowara in Samba sector of the Samba District.
Official sources said a BSF patrol party returning to its forward
post was directly targeted in firing from across the border at
Khowara in Samba sector. Sources said it couldn't be ascertained
immediately as to whether the firing was resorted to be the Rangers
or the militants.
The Centre said channels of communication with
some of the separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir were still
open and there was a possibility of negotiation with them in 2012
if they came forward for dialogue.
The General Officer Commanding of XV Corps, Lieutenant
General Syed Atta Hasnain said that militant outfits are still
active across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
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December 31 |
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Nagrota-based
16th corps, Lieutenant General A S Nandal, said there has been
a decline in infiltration attempts into India as compared to the
previous years. "Overall, there has been a decrease in infiltration
attempts and there has also been a downfall in the militant related
incidents. Overall there has been a huge difference as compared
to previous years," he said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said 2011 was one
of the most peaceful years in the State, Daily Excelsior reported.
"As 2011 draws to a close, my heartfelt gratitude goes to the
people of J&K for one of the most peaceful years in decades. It
was all your doing," he wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.
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