{"id":9855,"date":"2017-06-17T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T04:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T04:44:36","slug":"frustrated-militants-targeting-policemen-dgp-vaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9855","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Militants Targeting Policemen: DGP Vaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> The escalation in militant attacks on\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir\u00a0police personnel is because of the &#8220;frustration&#8221; of the militants,\u00a0Director General of Police\u00a0S P Vaid said here today, asserting that necessary measures would be taken to prevent them from carrying such acts.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We will take necessary measures. This is the frustration of the militants. Whether a militant is killed or a civilian or a cop, it is the Kashmiri who dies. The bloodshed will not take us anywhere, it is only the\u00a0murder\u00a0of humanity,&#8221; the DGP told reporters here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said the militants were targeting the local police as it was fighting them with eagerness.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The local police works on the anti-militancy front with eagerness, that is why they (militants) are targeting them (police). But I am sure that we will control this soon,&#8221; the DGP said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Earlier, Vaid led civil, police and security forces&#8217; officers and jawans at DPL\u00a0Srinagar\u00a0in laying floral wreaths on the mortal remains of the constable Shazad Dilawar Sofi, resident of Ashtengoo village of north Kashmir&#8217;s Bandipora district, who was killed in firing by suspected miitants on high security Airport Road in\u00a0Hyderpora quarter of the city Thursday night.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The DGP termed the constable&#8217;s killing as &#8220;murder\u00a0of humanity and Kashmiriyat&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the\u00a0murder\u00a0of humanity and Kashmiriyat, for which our neighbouring country is using our people for its geo-political purposes,&#8221; Vaid said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said the cop and a youth killed allegedly in security forces&#8217; firing in Rangreth area of city were related to each other.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They are cousins, belonging to the same family and the same village. That is why I am saying that the people here are being used as pawns,&#8221; the DGP said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Asked about militants warning of attacks on policemen, the top cop said, &#8220;We will face that (challenge)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: The escalation in militant attacks on\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir\u00a0police personnel is because of the &#8220;frustration&#8221; of the militants,\u00a0Director General of Police\u00a0S P Vaid said here today, asserting that necessary measures would be taken to prevent them from carrying such acts.\u00a0 &#8220;We will take necessary measures. This is the frustration of the militants. Whether a militant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9855","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\/9855","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=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/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=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}