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2017-05-28 India-Pakistan
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Protests hit held Kashmir after killing of militant leader
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[DAWN] In scenes reminiscent of what transpired in the aftermath of popular myrmidon leader Burhan Wani’s killing, a civilian lost his life and dozens of others were maimed on Saturday after massive anti-India protests and festivities erupted in India-held Kashmire following the death of a top myrmidon commander and his associate in a shootout with Indian troops.
Militant commander Sabzar Ahmed Bhat and one of his comrades were killed after troops cordoned off the southern Tral area overnight following a tip that snuffies were hiding there, police said.
The shootout ended on Saturday and soldiers recovered the bodies of two myrmidons. However,
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they were searching the area for at least one more body, police said.
The two were not the only snuffies to be slain on Saturday. At least six other snuffies were also killed in the disputed Himalayan region.
Two others had been slain on Friday, taking the total number of snuffies killed in held Kashmire on Friday and Saturday to at least 10.
As the shootout raged in southern Tral area between Indian troops on the one hand and Bhat and his comrade on the other, hundreds of angry residents chanting anti-India slogans mounted a march in an attempt to help the trapped pair escape, according to sources.
Clashes between rock-throwing protesters and government forces erupted in different places in the area, with police and paramilitary soldiers firing shotgun pellets and tear gas to stop the protests.
Witnesses said a young man was killed and several other people were maimed after Indian forces fired on the protesters near the site of the shootout. Police chief of the disputed region S.P. Vaid claimed the man was killed in a crossfire.
As the news of the myrmidon leader’s killing spread in the region, thousands of people, including students, erupted into the streets shouting "Go India, go back" and "We want freedom".
Traders shuttered shops and businesses across the Kashmire Valley, including Srinagar. Officials said festivities were reported in more than four dozen places in the disputed region.
Dozens of civilians were reportedly injured in the festivities. Police claimed at least 25 coppers and paramilitary soldiers were also injured.
In an effort to quell the protests, authorities declared an indefinite security lockdown in parts of Srinagar and other major cities and towns across the valley starting on Sunday, which marks the beginning of Ramazan.
They also suspended most internet services in the region a day after they had lifted a month-long ban on 22 social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter.
Kashmiri leaders who challenge India’s illusory sovereignty over Kashmire called for a general strike on Sunday and Monday.
Other myrmidons
Earlier on Saturday, soldiers killed six snuffies near the Line of Control (LoC), the Indian Army claimed.
A shootout erupted after the group of heavily armed snuffies crossed over from Azad Kashmire to the western Rampur sector of held Kashmire, said army front man Col Rajesh Kalia.
On Friday, the army said soldiers had killed two suspected snuffies in the same area.
There was no independent confirmation of the incidents, however.
Pakistain’s reaction
In a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Pruneface Aziz
 ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
condemned the killing of 12 Kashmiri youths by Indian forces since Friday and said three of them had been slain "extra-judicially".
Highlighting the gravity of the situation in the disputed region, he urged the international community -- particularly the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
organizations -- to call upon India to immediately stop the ruthless killings of defenceless Kashmiris 
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