...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....
, Vijay Kumar on Saturday claimed that a Pak LeT Death Eater carried out the attack on a police party in north Kashmir's Bandipora yesterday in which two cops were killed.SgCt Mohammad Sultan and constable Fayaz Ahmad were killed in the attack at Gulshan Chowk area of the district yesterday.
News agency GNS quoted IGP Kashmir saying that a Pak Death Eater of Lashker-eToiba carried out the attack "facilitated" by two OGW (Over Ground Worker)
Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate....
s. The IGP Kashmir however did not identify the Death Eater or the OGWs.
"Investigation is underway," he added.
A senior police officer further told GNS that based on CCTV footage of the attack "and other evidence", police have learnt that the Pak Death Eater fired upon the driver and one PSO guarding the concerned SHO and tried to snatch the rifle.
"But he couldn’t snatch the weapon due to retaliation by the PSO, " the officer said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
General Officer Commanding of Army’s Kilo Force, Major General Sanjiv Singh Salaria on Saturday chaired a joint meeting of security officers in Bandipora, a day after faceless myrmidons killed two coppers in the district of north Kashmir.
Salaria along with IGP Kashmir visited the scene of the attack and reviewed operational works and instructed field officers to generate specific inputs and enhance anti-militancy operations in district, a police brass hat told GNS.