Teenage Sons Lost to Militancy, Two Kashmiri Families Grapple With Grief, Unanswered Questions
The death of Faisal (14) and Kashif (15) have also prompted concerns that the involvement of minors signifies a dangerous turn in three-decade-old conflict.
(L) Faisal Gulzar Ganai, aged 14, who died during an encounter in Shopian on April 10 and (R) Kashif Mir, aged 15, who died along with five militants in Shopian on April 8. Photos: Special arrangement
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Shopian (Jammu and Kashmir): The last moment Dilshada Ganai (45) remembers spending with Faisal Gulzar, her 14-year-old son, was a morning conversation over tea on April 6. She implored him to walk his two sisters to school, and he had nodded solemnly.
12 militants, Territorial Army man and a former policeman killed in Kashmir in last 72 hours
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On Sunday five militants, including a 14-year-old boy, Faisal Gulzar, who went missing on April 6, were killed in two overnight encounters in Shopian and Anantnag districts of southern Kashmir.
On Sunday five militants, including a 14-year-old boy, Faisal Gulzar, who went missing on April 6, were killed in two overnight encounters in Shopian and Anantnag districts of southern Kashmir.
In the last 72 hours, 14 persons including 12 militants, a former special police officer and a Territorial Army man were killed in separate operations across Kashmir.
On Sunday five militants, including a 14-year-old boy, Faisal Gulzar, who went missing on April 6, were killed in two overnight encounters in Shopian and Anantnag districts of southern Kashmir.
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday issued following statement regarding Shopian gunfight saying that on Saturday at about 1700hrs, on a specific input generated by Shopian Police regarding presence of militants in orchards of Reban Bandpawa area of Shopian, a joint cordon and search operat.
Four militants from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and al-Badr outfits, including those involved in the killing of an off-duty Territorial Army soldier in Anantnag on Friday, were gunned down on Sunday in two encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. With this, the death toll in the encounters that began on Saturday in Anantnag and Shopian has climbed to five as one militant was killed in the initial exchange of fire. Towseef Ahmad Bhat and Aamir Hussain Ganie, both from Bijbehara and linked to the LeT, were killed at village Semthan in the Bijbehara area of south Kashmir s Anantnag district after they refused to surrender and fired indiscriminately on a search party, the police said.