102 Islaami-Terrorists (Shant-idoot) Encountered in Jammu and Kashmir this year (This is the beginning)
Devjiblog: Indian Security forces and Jammu and Kashmir Police have killed 102 terrorists till now this year,
making it the highest number of killings in the January-July period in seven
years, a police official said today.
The security forces also have prepared a hit-list of
several other terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen.
The
slain terrorists included Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Bashir Lashkari who
was involved in the killing of six police officers in south Kashmir and top
Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, he noted.
The
security forces and police are going after terrorists as part of the operation
"hunt down" and based on a "hit-list" of terrorists, said
the official who refused to be identified.
The
killing of 102 terrorists until July 12 makes it the highest number in the past
seven years, the official said.
Earlier in 2010, the highest number of 156 militants were
killed between January and July that year.
Last year, 77 Islamic-terrorists were killed during this period, 51 each were killed in
2015 and 2014, respectively, 43 in 2013, 37 in 2012 and 61 in 2011, according
to the police data.The hunt for Islamic-terrorists of various outfits has been
intensified under an operational strategy, the official said.
The counter-terrorist grid continues to maintain
dominance and deny any space to Pak-terrorists, the official said, adding synergized
hard intelligence-based joint operations involving the Jammu & Kashimiri
police and central paramilitary forces have been the hallmark of these Indian
Army Operations.
| Burhan Wani |
While the forces have already eliminated those involved the
killing of seven cops and lynching of Dy SP Ayub
Pantith, a massive hunt is
underway for Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abu Ismail with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who
has emerged as the mastermind of the deadly attack on Amarnath pilgrims.
Sabzar Bhat, who was a close associate of the slain
poster boy Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, was killed along with an associate in an encounter in
Tral in South Kashmir on May 28.
| Dy. SP Ayub Pandith |
On 1st July one this year (2017), Lashkari and
another Lashkar-Ai-Toiba militant Azad Malik were killed in a gunfight with
security forces in Anantnag's Brenti village in South Kashmir, Bashir Lashkari
was involved in the killing of six policemen in the district's Acchabal area on
June 2016 and on July 2012, top Hizbul terrorist Sajad Gilkar was among three
militants killed by security forces in Budgam district of central Kashmir.
Gilkar had played a key role in the Mob-lynching of DySP Mohammad
Ayub Pandith near Jamia Masjid in
Nowhatta area of Srinagar on 22nd June 2017.
Most of the encounters have taken place in South Kashmir's
Pulwama, Shopian and Anantnag districts while others have taken place in
Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir and Budgam in central Kashmir. In June,
the Army had released a "hit-list" of 12 top militants in Jammu and
Kashmir who it aims to "go after". The hit-list carries the names and
pictures of the militants along with the areas they are active in and the
strikes carried out by them. The hit-list includes Lashkar-e-Toiba’s so-called 'Divisional Commander' Abu
Dujana alias Hafiz, its
Kulgam 'District Commander' Junaid Ahmad Matoo alias Kandroo, Anantnag 'District
Commander' Bashir Wani alias Lashkar, Pulwama 'District Commander' Shaukat Tak
alias Huzaifa, Shopian 'Commander' Wasim Ahmed alias Osama and Zeenat-ul-Islam
alias Alkama (LET). 'Divisional Commander’ Abu Hamas, Jaish-e-Mohammad and a
Pakistani national, is also in the hit-list of the Indian Army.
From the Hizbul
Mujahideen, the list includes its 'Divisional Commander' Zakir Rashid Bhatt
alias Musa, Shopian 'District Commander' Saddam Paddar alias Zaid, Pulwama
'district commander' Reyaz Ahmed Naikoo alias Zubair, Badgam 'district
commander' Mohd Yasin Ittoo alias Mansoo and Kulgam 'District Commander' Altaf
Ahmed Dar alias Kachroo.