{"id":15443,"date":"2019-01-13T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2019-01-13T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T04:24:20","slug":"al-badr-commander-zeenat-ul-islam-killed-in-encounter-in-kulgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15443","title":{"rendered":"Al-Badr commander Zeenat-ul-Islam killed in encounter in Kulgam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Anantnag:<\/i><\/strong><i> Two militants, including top Al-Badr commander Zeenat-ul-Islam, have been killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The two militants killed in the Katpora encounter have been identified as Zeenat-ul-Islam and Shakeel Dar. Both were involved in several terror crimes,&#8221; a police official said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The encounter erupted in the Katpora locality of Yaripora in Kulgam district around 5.15 pm on Saturday<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Islam, a category A++ militant, had switched over to the Al-Badr from the Hizbul Mujahideen in November last year following agreement between the two outfits to strengthen the Al-Badr.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Islam was active since 2015, the police official said.                <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He said security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Katpora area of Yaripora in south Kashmir&#8217;s Kulgam district on Saturday evening after receiving specific information about the presence of militants there.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As the forces were conducting the searches, the militants fired on them, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As per policy, the militants were given an opportunity to surrender, but they continued to fire, the official said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter in which the two militants were killed, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site, the official said, adding, no collateral damage has been reported during the encounter. With PTI inputs<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anantnag: Two militants, including top Al-Badr commander Zeenat-ul-Islam, have been killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. &#8220;The two militants killed in the Katpora encounter have been identified as Zeenat-ul-Islam and Shakeel Dar. Both were involved in several terror crimes,&#8221; a police official said. The encounter erupted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15443","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\/15443","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=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/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=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}