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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.
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Srinagar, April 1
A policeman was killed when militants opened fire on the residence of a BJP leader in the Nowgam area here today, the police said.
BJP leader Anwar Ahmad, who is the party’s district general secretary for Baramulla and in-charge for Kupwara district, is safe, a police official said.
He said the militants fired on the guard post at the BJP leader’s house at Arigam Nowgam on the outskirts of the city this morning.
In the firing, Constable Rameez Raja was injured and rushed to SMHS Hospital in the city where doctors declared him “brought dead”.
Medical Superintendent of SMHS Hospital Dr Nazir Chowdhary said the cop was “brought dead” to the hospital.
Major tragedy averted in Srinagar, IED defused
Major tragedy averted in Srinagar, IED defused
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Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, Feb 22: Security forces today averted a major tragedy when they detected and defused an improvised explosive device (IED) near the Railway Station in Nowgam area of Srinagar.
A police official said that the IED was planted a few hundred meters away from the Nowgam Railway station near a bridge. The IED was spotted on a day when rail services between Banihal to Baramulla resumed after a gap of 11 months.
The IED was spotted by the Road Opening Party of the CRPF and the police after which Bomb Disposal Squad was called in. “The IED was fitted in a tin box. It took BDS almost an hour to diffuse the IED,” a police official said.