...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
police chief describing the killings as a "major success".
Pertinently, Abbas and Saqib figured in police's hit list of top 10 hard boyz operating in the valley.
Besides the slain duo, Salim Parray, Yousuf Kantroo, Reyaz Shetergund, Farooq Nali, Zubair Wani, Ashraf Molvi, Umer Mushtaq Khandey & Wakeel Shah were also in the list. Wakeel was killed along with two associates in a shootout with security forces in Nagbaeran forest area in south Kashmir's Pulwama on Saturday.
Giving details, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said that ten coppers in civvies killed the duo. "After information, ten coppers from J&K police in civvies went there and cordoned off the area," the IGP told news hounds in a brief conversation here, as per news agency GNS.
Kumar said that the duo were warned, but they fired upon the police, who retaliated, leading to a shootout in which they were killed.
The IGP said that Abbas was motivating youth to join bully boy ranks while Saqib "carried out killings on the instructions of the Abbas."
A resident of Rampur village in Kulgam, Sheikh, 45, was a top bully boy commander from the south Kashmir district and one of the oldest hard boyz in the valley, reported GNS.
Previously associated with Hizbul Mujahideen
...
Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the
sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
, sources told GNS that Sheikh was part of The Resistance® Front (TRF), which police say is a shadow group of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT).
Sheikh had escaped several times after breaking the cordon in the last six years. Saqib was resident of Srinagar, as per the report.