Indian troops on Sunday claimed to kill five fighters, reportedly including a top commander from the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group, in stepped-up anti-militancy operations in Indian Immorally Enthralled Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), police said.
The fighters were killed in two separate late operations by Indian troops south of Srinagar, Kashmir Police principal Vijay Kumar told Reuters.
“ We had launched two separate operations on the base of inputs about the presence of zealots in these areas last night. Five zealots, including JeM commander, Zahid Wani, and a Pakistani public, Kafeel, were killed in these two operations,” Kumar claimed.
A police officer was shot to death by fighters outside his hearthstone Saturday evening in the south of Srinagar, Kumar said.
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In January, 21 fighters have been killed across IIOJK, according to police.
Last time, the region witnessed a surge of mercenary killings, with fighters putatively targeting non-Kashmiris, including migratory workers, and members of the nonage Hindu and Sikh communities in the Muslim- maturity vale.
Indian forces in the heavily militarized region responded with a wide crackdown.
Further, 189 Kashmiri fighters were killed last time, a police functionary said.
Pakistan condemns’extra-judicial killings’
Meanwhile, Pakistan explosively condemned the extra-judicial killings and reiterated its call for transnational responsibility of Indian occupation forces, Radio Pakistan
reported.
The report quoted Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad as saying that Indian occupation forces had martyred at least 23 Kashmiris in fake hassles and so-called cordon-and-search operations in the month of January alone.
” Driven by the far-right revolutionist Hindutva testament that provokes and condones genocide of Muslims, the Indian forces are relentlessly targeting the Kashmiris, especially youth, in the engaged home,” he said.
The prophet said the transnational community must act to stop this wanton oppression and persecution of the besieged Kashmiris under illegal occupation, the report added.
