SRINAGAR, August 4: Indian Army in its fresh act of state terrorism has martyring seven more youth in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Indian army personnel carried out indiscriminate firing during the so called search operation in district Kupwara resulting in the martyrdom of seven Kashmiri youth.
Meanwhile Indian Army’s Srinagar based Spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia in a media interview claimed that the youth were killed in Keran area of the district.
Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that “in the last 36 hours number of attempts to disrupt the peace and to target the AmarnathYatra were made in Kashmir. A BAT attempt was made on one of the forward posts in Keran sector. It was foiled by alert troops resulting in the killing of five to seven regulars/militants,” he said.
The defence spokesman said that four Jaish-e-Muhammad militants were also killed in the hinterland in various encounters (on Friday and Saturday). He said that “the recovery of cache of arms, sniper riffle, IED and a mine with Pakistani markings clearly indicates complicity of Pakistan in militant activities. Security forces will continue to respond to all nefarious activities along the LoC and the hinterland,” he said.
Meanwhile, with the recovery to two more dead bodies in the debris of a house after the 40-hour-long cordon and search operation at Pandoshan village in Shopian, the toll mounted to four. One victim has been identified as a non-local labourer. Meanwhile Indian occupational forces had also martyred two Kashmiri youth during the search operations in Shopian district on Saturday.
On the other hand, thousands of people participated in the funeral prayers of one martyred youth, Zeenat-ul-Islam Naikoo at his native Memmander village in Shopian district. The participants of the funeral raised high-pitched anti-India and pro-freedom slogans on the occasion.-Sabah
