Tag: Anantnag encounter

A Lashkar-e-Taiba commander was among two militants killed in the gunfight in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday, the police said, reported PTI.The commander has been identified as Uzair Khan, Additional Director General of Police Vijay Kumar said. “The dead body of another terrorist is visible, but it has ...

The week-long joint anti-terror operation in the Garol forests in the Anantnag district has ended, additional DGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said on Tuesday but the search operation will continue. Kumar said that the body recovered on Monday has been identified as that of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Uzair Khan. The body ...

Security personnel during a search operation at Kokernag area, in Anantnag district, Tuesday, September 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Two militants, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ‘commander’, and a soldier were found dead at the Anantnag encounter site, taking the toll to six, the J&K Police said on Tuesday.The ...

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha meets with the family members of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Humayun Bhat, who lost his life in the Anantnag encounter, at his residence, in Srinagar on September 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The operation to flush ...

The intense gunfight between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag has entered the fifth day on Sunday, 17 September, with thousands of troops deployed in the dense forests of Gadol. The encounter, which has been ongoing for over 100 hours, began on Wednesday, Two Army personnel ...

Northern Army commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi reviewed the operational situation near the Anantnag gunfight site. Photo: X(Twitter)/@NorthernComd_IA Northern Army commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on September 16 reviewed the operational situation near the site of a gunfight that has been going on for four days in Jammu and ...

SRINAGAR: A soldier wounded in retaliatory fire by a group of Pakistan-backed terrorists being chased by security forces in J&K's Anantnag for three days died in hospital on Friday, making him the fourth casualty of the operation after two Army officers – a Colonel and a Major – and ...

Smoke rises after a blast at a terrorist hideout during an encounter at the Kokernag area in J&K’s Anantnag district on September 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The toughest task for the troops during the 60-hour long anti-militancy operation in Anantnag’s Kokernag was retrieval of the bodies of ...

Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday reiterated the Board of Control for Cricket in India's stance on bilateral ties with Pakistan in international cricket amid the growing boycott calls following the Anantnag encounter. Three top Indian security personnel were recently killed in a gunfight with Pakistan-based terrorists in ...

Srinagar: Even as the Indian Army is involved in a counter terrorism operation against terrorists in the Kokernag area of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag, one Army soldier is missing, according to reports. The encounter that broke out on Wednesday (September 13) claimed the lives of two army officers and ...