{"id":50348,"date":"2022-01-30T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/jems-kashmir-chief-mastermind-of-ied-attacks-among-4-slain-militants-in-pulwama-gunfight-top-security-officials\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T08:05:35","slug":"jems-kashmir-chief-mastermind-of-ied-attacks-among-4-slain-militants-in-pulwama-gunfight-top-security-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50348","title":{"rendered":"JeM\u2019s Kashmir Chief, mastermind of IED attacks among 4 slain militants in Pulwama gunfight: Top Security Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Another militant killed in Budgam, total 5 killed in 12 Hrs; Foreign militants settling in civilian areas, human, technical intelligence leading to successful Ops: IGP Kashmir; Says focus is to bring down number of active militants to less than 100 this year; House owner\u2019s son was a Hybrid militant; House owner to be booked under UAPA, will wipe-out; 8 foreigners among 21 militants killed since Jan 1; Killing of Zahid Manzoor a big success: GoC Victor Force<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Pulwama, Jan 30: <\/em><\/strong>Top security officials Sunday said that five militants were killed in twin encounters in past 12 hours\u2014four in Naira, Pulwama district and one in Charar-e-Shareef area of Budgam district. They said among the four slain in Naira, Pulwama was the wanted Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit\u2019s Kashmir chief for south Kashmir Zahid Manzoor Wani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing a joint press conference at Balapur, Shopian, the General officer Commanding (GoC) of South Kashmir based Victor Force Lieutenant General Prashant Srivastava said that acting on a specific lead, joint teams of police, army and CRPF laid a siege in Naira village of Pulwama on Saturday evening. \u201cIn the initial assault, three militants were killed and later the presence of another militant was established and he was also killed and identified as Zahid Manzoor Wani, an IED expert and the JeM\u2019s south Kashmir chief,\u201d the GoC Victor Force said as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He was the master mind of IED attacks carried out in South Kashmir since 2017 and the main recruiter of local boys into militancy fold. \u201cHis killing is a big success for forces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the occasion, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that during the operation, house owner\u2019s son Inayat Ahmed, was asked to surrender but he along with militants opened fire at the security forces and got killed. \u201cHe was a hybrid militant,\u201d the IGP said. He said that the house owner at Naira, Pulwama, in whose house the encounter took place, will be booked under UAPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the killing of JeM commander Zahid Manzoor Wani, who was the wanted commander of JeM, was killed along with his three associates while another militant of LeT was killed in an encounter at Charar-e-Shareef in Budgam district. \u201cIn total, five militants, of which four were killed in Naira, Pulwama and one in Budgam in the past 12 hours,\u201d he said. The IGP said that Zahid was in fact the chief of JeM for the entire Kashmir. \u201cHis brother was also a militant and is in jail,\u201d the IGP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IGP said that since January 1, 11 encounters took place in which 21 militants including eight foreigners were killed. \u201cForeigners who were hiding in forests are coming and settling down in civilian areas. With the help of human and technical inputs, we are zeroing in on them and killing them in clean operations,\u201d he said, adding that in both the operations, there were no casualties to security forces. He said all efforts are in place to bring down local militant recruitment and a strategy is being followed to bring the number of active militants less than 100 this year\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another militant killed in Budgam, total 5 killed in 12 Hrs; Foreign militants settling in civilian areas, human, technical intelligence leading to successful Ops: IGP Kashmir; Says focus is to bring down number of active militants to less than 100 this year; House owner\u2019s son was a Hybrid militant; House owner to be booked under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50348","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\/50348","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=50348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}