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Masarat Kar, one of the NC councillors from Sopore talking to the media before the start of the meeting on May 29, 2021. When they were in the meeting, two of the members and a cop were killed in a militant attack.
National Conference (NC) finally got the leadership of Sopore Municipal Council after Masarat Kar – the daughter of Ghulam Rasool Kar, defeated PDP by polling 12 of the 18 votes. The position was vacant since January 2021. The council was the target of a surprise attack by militants in March in which two councillors and a cop were killed.
Jammu Kashmir Police received around 40 thousand applications against 1350 available positions.
Indian officials say 10 combatants killed in KashmirInternational 2021-07-09, by Editor Comments Off 0
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Eight suspected rebels and two Indian soldiers were killed in a series of counterinsurgency operations in disputed Kashmir, police said Thursday, as many shops were shut in parts of the region to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of a popular rebel commander whose killing triggered open defiance against Indian rule.
The deaths in five separate incidents starting Wednesday came as violence in the Himalayan region has increased in recent weeks.
India’s military said two soldiers and two insurgents were killed Thursday in a clash along the Line of Control, the highly militarized de facto frontier that divides Kashmir between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India.
SRINAGAR: Indian government forces killed six fighters in a series of so-called counterinsurgency operations in Occupied Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
The four deadly and separate incidents starting on Wednesday came as violence in the disputed Himalayan region has increased in recent weeks.
Four fighters were killed in two separate gunfights with Indian troops in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama and Kulgam districts early on Thursday, the Indian army said.
On Wednesday, troops apprehended a senior Kashmiri fighter, Mehraj-ud-din Halwai, in the northwestern Handwara area, and after interrogation he led them to a hideout where he was killed in a firefight, police claimed in a statement.
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