{"id":48702,"date":"2021-10-13T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/tral-encounter-slain-militant-identified-as-top-jem-commander-sham-sofi-say-police\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:53:55","slug":"tral-encounter-slain-militant-identified-as-top-jem-commander-sham-sofi-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48702","title":{"rendered":"Tral encounter: Slain militant identified as top JeM commander Sham Sofi, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tral, Oct 13: <\/strong>A top Jaish-e- Muhammad commmander has been killed in an encounter between secuity forces and militants in Waggad area of Tral hamlet in South Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a top JeM commander has been killed in the gunfight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kashmir zone police tweeted: &#8220;Top JeM Commander #militant Sham Sofi killed in Tral #Encounter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, an official said that a joint team of Police, Army and CRPF launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) on specific information about the presence of militants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that as the joint team of forces approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired upon them, which was retaliated, triggering an encounter\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tral, Oct 13: A top Jaish-e- Muhammad commmander has been killed in an encounter between secuity forces and militants in Waggad area of Tral hamlet in South Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district on Wednesday, police said. A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a top JeM commander has been killed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48702","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\/48702","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=48702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}