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India-Pakistan
Top JeM commander gunned down by security forces in Valley
2021-10-16
[OneIndia] A top commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
Sham Sofi was killed in an encounter today with security forces in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir
...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....
The forces acted on specific inputs about the presence of Jaish-e-Mohammad Lions of Islam in the Tilwani Mohalla Waggad in the Tral area. Following this the security forces launched a cordon and search operation there, police officials said.

Following the exchange of fire, a terrorist was killed. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said that the slain terrorist has been identified as Sham Sofi who was a top commander of the JeM. Taking to Twitter, he said, top JeM Commander #terrorist Sham Sofi killed in Tral #Encounter.
Related:
Pulwama district: 2021-09-16 J&K: Grenade attack on security forces in Pulwama, four civilians injured
Pulwama district: 2021-08-22 Puwalma district, Kashmir: 8 JeM turbans toes up in two days
Pulwama district: 2021-08-08 Al-Badr militant killed in Budgam gunfight
Related:
Jaish-e-Mohammad: 2021-10-13 Crackdown on terrorists and their sympathisers: NIA raids multiple locations in J&K
Jaish-e-Mohammad: 2021-10-11 Recent killings in J&K aimed at a grand revival of the Al-Badr
Jaish-e-Mohammad: 2021-09-14 From a new border module to NATGRID, how India plans to wade away the Taliban threat
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