{"id":13142,"date":"2018-11-29T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T11:58:58","slug":"naveed-jatt-kept-forces-on-toes-for-6-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13142","title":{"rendered":"Naveed Jatt Kept forces on toes for 6 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said Naveed was an A++ category militant and had managed to give a slip to forces at least six times in major encounters.<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i> The 21-year-old Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Naveed Jatt was a longest surviving militant of the outfit operating in Kashmir since 2012.<\/i>
\nJatt took the reins after the killing of LeT\u2019s top commander Abu Ismail, and was habitual of uploading videos on social media in a bid to bring youth into the militancy fold.<\/i><\/p>\n

A police officer, while terming Jatt\u2019s killing a major success for forces, said Lashkar is \u201cnow headless and the morale of its local and foreign militants in Kashmir has now gone down\u201d.<\/i>
\nHe said Naveed was an A++ category militant and had managed to give a slip to forces at least six times in major encounters.<\/i>
\nAccording to police records, Naveed crossed over to this side from Pakistan in October 2012 and started operating first in northern Kashmir and then shifting his base to southern areas.<\/i>
\n\u201cIn 2014, he was arrested and lodged in central jail Srinagar,\u201d the officer said, adding that Naveed managed his escape in February this year in a dramatic way after he was brought to SMHS hospital for a checkup.<\/i>
\nNaveed secured his escape after killing two policemen who were accompanying him from the central jail.<\/i>
\n\u201cFrom that very moment, he was on the radar of all security agencies and his movement was being tracked. One thing about him was that he kept on changing his locations from Shopian to Pulwama and back,\u201d the officer said. \u201cHe would stay with Hizbul Mujahideen militants most of the times. In fact, his escape was also facilitated by Hizbul Mujahideen militants from the SMHS hospital.\u201d<\/i>
\nAfter he escaped, the police said it took a series of steps to ensure the safety of prisoners and one such move involved shifting of all Pakistani prisoners from central jail Srinagar.<\/i>
\nThe then director general of police S P Vaid also banned medical checkup of prisoners at SMHS hospital and instead issued directions that the prisoners in need of medical attention be brought to the police hospital in Srinagar under tight security cover.<\/i>
\nA probe was also ordered into Jatt\u2019s escape, while then director general of Prisons and the SSP central jail were immediately removed.<\/i>
\nToday, DGP Dilbag Singh, while addressing media, said Naveed was fond of recording videos and uploading them on social networking sites \u201cwith the motive of luring and attracting youth\u201d.<\/i>
\n\u201cHe was heading Lashkar after the killing of top commander of the outfit Abu Ismail in September 2017 in Aribagh area of Nowgam in Srinagar. At times Naveed would record a video during a snowfall or while roaming on roads in Anantnag. Sometimes he would be seen playing with weapons. But uploading videos on social media also helps us to track the militants,\u201d the DGP said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He said Naveed was an A++ category militant and had managed to give a slip to forces at least six times in major encounters. Srinagar: The 21-year-old Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Naveed Jatt was a longest surviving militant of the outfit operating in Kashmir since 2012. Jatt took the reins after the killing of LeT\u2019s top commander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}