{"id":29991,"date":"2020-07-19T16:08:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29991"},"modified":"2020-07-19T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T10:38:43","slug":"army-hopes-curtailment-in-militant-recruitment-after-amshipora-shopian-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29991","title":{"rendered":"Army Hopes &#8216;Curtailment&#8217; In Militant Recruitment After Amshipora Shopian Gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Says Police Successfully Prevented Stone Pelters From Interference In Operation<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: Army on Sunday said that it was hopeful that there would curtailment in recruitment by the \u201cPakistani militants and their freedom of movement will be controlled\u201d in Shopian areas after the gunfight at Amshipora in the south Kashmir district on weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe got information about the presence of 4-5 militants in the village. At 02:45 hours on July 18, while the cordon party was in the process of laying the cordon, they came under heavy fire from the fringes of the cordon and after 5 minutes they came under fire from the centre of the cordon,\u201d 2 Sector Commander Brigadier Ajay Kotach told reporters as per a GNS correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe cordon party was redeployed; additional parties were rushed to the spot to strengthen the cordon. By 04:30 hours, the police and CRPF reached the operational site,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 05:30 hours, he said, after there was visibility, a search party was moved into the target house which was \u2018newly constructed single house.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWhile the search party moved in, they came under fire and in the ensuing action, three militants were neutralized,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThe dead bodies with arms and ammunition along with IED material were handed over to the police in situ as per the standard operating procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no collateral damage to civilian life or property, he said. \u201cThe J&amp;K police successfully prevented the stone peters to interfere with the operation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The army officer said that there has been the presence of Pakistani militants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are hopeful that there would curtailment in recruitment by the Pakistani militants and their freedom of movement will be controlled and we will be effectively dominate this area now,\u201d he added. (GNS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Police Successfully Prevented Stone Pelters From Interference In Operation Srinagar: Army on Sunday said that it was hopeful that there would curtailment in recruitment by the \u201cPakistani militants and their freedom of movement will be controlled\u201d in Shopian areas after the gunfight at Amshipora in the south Kashmir district on weekend. \u201cWe got information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29991","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\/29991","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=29991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}