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...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....
on Friday, killing two officers and wounding one despite tight security in the disputed Moslem-majority region ahead of India's Independence Day.
A group of Lions of Islam opened fire on the police team that was on duty in the Nowgam area of Srinagar city, the chief of police in Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, told Rooters.
"We had inputs that Lions of Islam may carry out attack and were alert," said Kumar. "They came through a narrow lane and fired indiscriminately."
He said the Lions of Islam had been identified and vowed to "neutralize them" soon. The area had been cordoned off searches were going on, he said.
The attack comes days after the first anniversary of the revocation of Kashmir's constitutional autonomy, a reform the Indian government said would promote the region's development by drawing it closer to the rest of the country.
But many people in Kashmir saw the loss of special autonomy as another step in the erosion of the rights of Moslems by the Hindu-nationalist government. The government rejects that.
Kashmir has been disputed by India and neighbouring Pakistain since the end of British colonial rule in 1947. Both countries claim it in full but rule it in part.
More than 50,000 people have been killed in more than three decades of insurgency in Kashmir that India accuses Pakistain of fuelling by supporting Moslem hard boy groups fighting India's security forces in its part of the divided region.
Pakistain says it only offers political support to its fellow Moslems in the Himalayan region.