On 28 August afternoon, suspected armed rebels shot at Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Abdul Rashid Pir near Lal Chowk in volatile south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Pir, who received bullet injury in his abdomen, was first moved to district hospital Anantnag for treatment from where he was immediately referred to Indian Army’s 92 base hospital in Srinagar. ASI Pir could not survive. The slain policeman hailed from Panzath, Qazigund in south Kashmir. Pir was not the first policeman to be killed in a suspected militant attack in the…
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