Pulwama
Two separatist guerrillas were killed on Thursday in an overnight gunfight between holed up militants and security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. “Two militants including Manzoor Ahmad Dar of Samboora (Pulwama) and a Pakistani national have been killed in Gusoo village encounter,” a senior police officer told IANS in summer capital here.
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Posters with names and photographs of wanted militants have been pasted at many places across Tral town in Pulwama district. The posters ask the public to give any information regarding the whereabouts of these militants to the police or any other security agency. “Anybody who passes on information regarding these terrorists will be duly rewarded,” read the posters in Urdu and in English. All militants appearing in the posters are residents of Tral and members of the Hizbul Mujahideen. The militants include Azhar Ahmad Bhat and Shakir Ahmad Dar of…
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When some sections of Kashmiri Pandits are demanding separate settlements in Kashmir valley, Pyarelal’s family at Inder village in south Kashmir’s militancy hotbed Pulwama district is showing that they can live harmoniously with Muslims at their native village. Pyarelal’s family is the single Pandit family living with 350 Muslim families for the last 20 years. Pyarelal, who is living with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and a grandchild, never considered migration option that most of his community members opted for. “When Pandits in Kashmir were leaving their native villages after the…
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Sopore town of north Kashmir on Wednesday observed complete shutdown against the killing of a local militant in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pampore area last evening. Police said Shakir Ahmad Bhat son of Showkat Ahmad of Nowpora Sopore was killed in a brief gunfight with forces in Pampore on Tuesday evening. Another non-local militant was also killed in the encounter. When the slain militant’s body was handed over the family on Wednesday, hundreds of people joined his funeral prayers and raised pro-freedom slogans, witnesses said. Meanwhile, commercial establishments remained…
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For the third consecutive day, Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district observed a spontaneous shutdown to mourn the death of three local Hizbul Mujahideen militants killed on Monday. According to GNS Correspondent, all the shops, commercial establishments, schools and banks were closed in Bijbehara, which is the hometown of Chief Minister Muhammad Sayeed. The shutdown also affected vehicular movement in the area. On Monday this week, three militants identified as Sartaj Ahmad Lone son of Ghulam Mohammad Lone residents of Wopzan, Bijbehara, Adil Ahmad Sheikh son of Fayaz Ahmad…
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The highway township of Pampore, famous for the world-class saffron produced from the carevas around it, seems to have lost its sheen due to the declining production for multiple reasons and an “indifferent and apathetic” approach of the authorities over the years. The latest grouse of the people is the coalition government’s decision to select the site for establishing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Awantipora instead of Galandhar, close to the saffron town overlooking the vast carevas producing the costliest spice. Even as the government is…
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• Thousands attend funeral prayers in Bijbehara • Pakistani flag hoisted at CM’s ancestral house • Day-long clashes between youth and cops Thousands of people attended the funeral prayers of three Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Bijbehara town of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district amid shutdown. The militants were killed in a gunfight with forces at Aishmuqam on Monday. After the burial of militants, violent clashes erupted in the town and continued throughout the day and angry youth hoisted Pakistani flag at Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s ancestral house. Adil Shiekh, son…
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An illegal residential colony is coming up on state and saffron land in the Pampore area of Pulwama district. Locals alleged that the administration was hand in glove with the land mafia. Pampore residents said soil excavation was rampant in the saffron fields located in the periphery of the town. They alleged that the district administration was allowing vandalising of precious saffron land. They claimed that the land mafia was facilitating construction of residential houses on a huge chunk of state and saffron land. Any kind of construction on either…
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The daily rated workers from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday alleged that the government has been forcing them to attend Narendra Modi’s rally in Srinagar on November 7. A group of daily rated workers working in different departments like Agriculture, Horticulture, Forest, Fisheries, Labour and Animal Husbandry from Pulwama district told CNS that Directors of the concerned departments have issued a circular wherein they have been directed to assemble at Town Hall Pulwama at 6 on Friday evening. “After getting assembled there we will be taken to Srinagar to attend…
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Confident of harnessing water resources to give residents relief from power cuts Frequent power cuts have sparked the will in a school student to develop a small-scale power project. Zubair Ahmad Kumar, a resident of Drabgam village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, is a Class IX student of the Government Higher Secondary School in the village. He has been working for the past two years to develop the working model of a hydroelectric power project at his village so that he can generate electricity for his village. He is confident…
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