Terrorist killed in #Shopian gunfight: police https://t.co/iMU6VY6tf9
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Police on Sunday claimed to have killed a terrorist in a shootout in Baskuchan area in south 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....
's Shopian district.
"Encounter has started at Baskuchan area of #Shopian. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow, " a police front man said.
"ShopianEncounterUpdate: 01 terrorist killed. Search operation going on. Further details shall follow, " he added. "Killed terrorist identified as Naseer Ahmad Bhat of Nowpora Baskuchan Shopian, linked with LeT terror outfit. Incriminating materials, arms & ammn including AK rifle recovered. He was involved in several terror crimes and recently beat feet from an encounter," ADGP Kashmir said in a separate statement.
The encounter is believed to have broken out soon after security forces cordoned the area.