SRINAGAR: Security personnel liquidated an “area commander” of a banned militant outfit, “UL Umar” in the downtown Wazpura while six people died in violence in the Kashmir valley on August 26.
Explosives experts detected and removed a landmine planted by militants in an orchard near Chotipora village, Handwara, in Kupwara district, a police sources said.
‘This was the first such attempt by militants.
A vital communication link, Dalgate Bridge, connecting downtown area with the civil lines was damaged in a bomb explosion on Saturday night, a police spokesman said Sunday.
The militants ambushed security forces at several places and during one skirmish they fired rockets on the town hall building in Handwara, occupied by paramilitary forces early on Sunday.
Militants forced into the house of a civilian, Sumander Khan, in Khurana in Kupwara district, on Saturday night and fired at the members of his family, killing his wife Mrs. Hajra and son, Bashir Ahmed on the spot.
Police sources security personnel recovered the bullet’ ridden body of a person identified as B.L Kak, son of a senior state official, from in South Kashmir township of Anantnag, The body was found hanging near Nathpora bridge in the township on Saturday.
A militant of the outlawed Al Umar Mujahidin group was killed in an encounter with security forces and a Pakistan trained man arrested since Saturday night.
The militant identified as Tariq Ahmed Sheikh was killed in downtown Srinagar Saturday night. Police sources said some’ militants fired upon the security forces and when they returned fire, one person was killed. The others managed to escape under cover of darkness.
Some reports of firing have also been reported from Kamarwari area of the city Sunday morning, sources said. However details are still awaited.
In the border district of Rajouri in Jammu division, police have arrested one Pakistani trained subversive identified as Abdul Karim and seized one AK 47 rifle.
SRINAGAR: One person was killed on Friday in a powerful explosion in a temple in Jammu city while nine people including three security men were killed in Kashmir valley since Thursday night.
Three people were injured, one of them seriously, in the blast in the temple complex in Jammu’s Gandhi Nagar Locality, police spokesman said.
Two central reserve police force constables were killed and four injured in a heavy exchange of fire with militants at Alikadql. A woman also died at the spot, though not in the exchange, a police source said.
Militants and security men exchanged fire in Nawab Bazar, Nowhatta, and Malaratta. There were no reports of causalities.
Earlier security men were attacked at Saidakadal, Nowpora, and Waniyar in Safakadal in downtown and in Bad shah Chowk.
JAMMU: Vigil along the line of actual control in Kashmir was intensified Monday while a former legislator was among the 10 persons killed in the Kashmir valley overnight since Sunday.
Nazir Ahmed Wani, a former National Conference member of the dissolved state assembly and Gulshan Qadiri, a Janata Dal worker and close associate of federal home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, were critically wounded on Nar olla-Litter link road late Sunday.
Ahmed, popularly known as “Neloora” succumbed to injuries in the hospital while Qadiri was fighting for his life.
Both the leaders were returning after attending a marriage function.
Neloora is the second member of the dissolved assembly to have fallen victim in the Kashmir valley after Mir Mustafa, the lone independent member of the house who was kidnapped and killed by the outlawed HizbulMujahidin on March 26 this year.
Neloora had won the 1987 state Assembly election from Wachi constituency in South Kashmir.
Official sources said Vigil along the line of actual control throughout the state was further strengthened amidst intelligence reports that pak trained subversives were likely to attempt a “mass infiltration” in different sectors of the LAC in next couple of days following political developments in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
On the basis of the information provided by Karim, police launched a search operation to trace his accomplices, the sources added.
In Jammu, three police officers including city DY.S.P have been placed under suspension by the government on the charges of dereliction of duty and for allegedly helping the arrested person in the recent explosions and shoot out incident in the city on July 19.
The director general of police, MrJ.N. Saxena, has attached these officers Mr Inder Mohan Bakshi, DY SP Mr. Din Mohammad, Inspector, and Pervez Ahmed, AS] to Jammu ranger headquarters pending further investigation, according to an official spokesmen,
Meanwhile the district magistrate, Jammu, has ordered lifting of night curfew in the walled city from Sunday as normalcy has returned to the city.
Five Pak trained militants were among nine persons killed in different incidents on August 25.
Fifteen militants were arrested by security forces from different parts of the state,
Official sources said five militants were shot dead by security forces in northern Kupwara sector in two encounters.
Security forces recovered three bodies, two of them from river Jhelum and one from Lucknow Pampore road in south Kashmir.
Militants shot dead one person at Drugmulla in Kupwara district late Friday night. One person injured in the incident has been admitted to the hospital.
However, only five deaths including that of three militants, have been officially confirmed.
Security forces seized nine AK47 rifles, four pistols, 10 hand grenades, two rocket boosters, one rocket optical sight besides a huge quantity of ammunitions and explosive materials.
Militants fired rockets at a security force picket and ambushed a patrolling party in south Kashmir, while three persons were killed and seven others, injured Aug 29.
Eight Pakistan trained militants, six in Srinagar and one each in Baramulla and Anantnag, were arrested during the period, while a major catastrophe was averted with the timely detection of a live bomb from the administrative complex in Pulwama.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 7, 1990
