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Grenade Attack in Pulwama

PULWAMA
June 27 A Grenade was lobbed on Police station in South Kashmir's Pulwama on Wednesday night. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that unidentified persons hurled a grenade on the POlice station. However nobody was injured in the attack, as per initial reports. The Forces present inside the police station fired aerial shots creating panic in the area, Locals told The Kashmiriyat. Details Emerging.
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5 Civilians Killed in South Kashmir after Resumption of Anti Militancy Operations

REGIONAL
June 27 After central government ordered to resume anti militancy operations in Kashmir, since then five civilians have been killed in south Kashmir. The first one was Sheeraz Ahmed of Brakpora area of Islamabad (Anantnag) district in South Kashmir who was killed soon during clashes that erupted in Anantnag town after Eid prayers. Sheeraz who was killed near Eidgah Ashajipora that is about 3 kms from his house. "Sheeraz was hit with multiple pellets and fell unconscious" an eyewitness told The Kashmiriyat adding that we rushed him to district hospital Islamabad where he was declared brought dead. Hanifa Banoo, the mother of slain Sheeraz said that he had pellets all over his body including neck, throat, chest, face and abdomen and his death happened due to pellets, however t...
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71 % Of New Age Militants Are Hanfi, 23 % Jamaat e Islami, 2 % are Salafis, Claims Report

REGIONAL
June 10 The Jammu and Kashmir Police has conducted an intensive study of 156 local youth who joined militancy from 2010-2016. The 74 Page report as accessed by The Indian Express is based on the interviews of the families, friends, relatives and the affiliates of the militants. The report also negates the radicalization factor and says most (71%) of the new age militants come from Hanafiya families against 3 per cent of Salafi families and 23% from Jama’at e Islami families. Some of the Highlights of the report are: 32 percent of youths who joined militancy had passed Class X. 19 per cent undergraduates and graduates while 7 per cent were post-graduates constitute. 56 per cent had studied in government schools, 34 per cent had studied in both government and private school...
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Nobody Informed Army, Our Phone Call was Traced, Saddam told Family in the last call

WRITE-UPS
May 06 I visited the house of Heff Shermal in Shopian the last month to meet the father of Saddam Padder; who suspiciously looked at me and fired a series of questions, who are you? Which Agency do you work for* *Ghulam Mohuddin Padder upon hearing that I am a journalist looked amazed. It was the first that some journalist had come to meet him. Lying in the corner of his one story house Ghulam Mohuddin Padder recited the ordeal of how his son Saddam up in Heff Shermal area of Shopian. “He was very active and a naughty child.” “He would ask for my permission to go to school, later when I went to cut wood in the fields, I would see him at a distance,” his father who is a wood cutter and an orchardist remembers. ‘‘Along with Waseem Shah (another local Militant), the Government Forces...
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