4 militants killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, SEPT 9: Four militants, including a top one belonging to Muslim Janbaaz Force (MJF), were killed in two separate encounters with...

SRINAGAR, SEPT 9: Four militants, including a top one belonging to Muslim Janbaaz Force (MJF), were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Kashmir valley last night, an official spokesman said here today.

He said security forces in a joint operation with police raided Hafarada forest in frontier district of Kupwara in north Kashmir last evening following a tip-off that some militants were holed up there.

The joint search party was fired at by the hiding militants and in the ensuing encounter, two militants, identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Pir alias Abu Basharat and Wali Mohammad alias Abu Rashed were killed, the spokesman said.

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Mushtaq, a self-styled divisional commander of Muslim Janbaaz Force had recently returned from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir to reorganise the outfit and motivate youth to join it, he said adding two ak assault rifles, six grenades and some ammunition were recovered from them.

In the other encounter, the security forces gunned down two militants of Harkat-ul-Jehad-E-Islami in Gandole area of Kokernag in Anantnag district last night.

Some arms and ammunition were recovered from the killed militants, identified as Hafeez Bhat of Banihal and Zaffar Ahmad Bhat of Kishtwar.

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