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Three militants killed in Indian Kashmir: Police

Indian police said they killed three militants suspected of being from the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.

Afp June 03, 2011

SRINAGAR: Indian police said Friday they had killed three militants suspected of being from the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group in a fierce gunbattle in restive Kashmir.

The guerrillas were killed in Sopore town, 55 kilometres (35 miles) north of the main city Srinagar, police superintendent Altaf Khan told AFP.

"The encounter broke out last evening when a joint party of police and army confronted the militants and ended with their killing this morning," he said.

The firefight came just two days after security forces recovered a big haul of rifles, pistols and grenades from a roadside dump in Sopore.

For more than 20 years, militant groups in Kashmir have fought against New Delhi's rule, killing police and soldiers in the highly militarised Himalayan region.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba was blamed by India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead and US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week that the group was "in the same rank" as al Qaeda.

COMMENTS (18)

yem | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi according to you people, they are innocent, freedom fighters, and national assets, for rest of the world, they are retarded terrorists

ghairatmand | 12 years ago | Reply @Blithe: Many American presidential candidate make promises without knowing the ground realities. Once Obama came to power and got briefed about Pakistan he realized his mistake of bringing Kashmir topic in his election campaign. The man had hammered India and China in almost every day of his life to appease people about job market, while completely forgetting that the capitalism in his country cannot survive without "importing" skills or outsourcing. So Pakistani were the only hopeful dumb who believed he will will resolve Kashmir issue. Nobody can resolve Kashmir issue but Pakistan. Stop terrorism and Kashmir would be fine.

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Waquar Z | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: @prince: I think, you two gentlemen can glean the popularity of your opinions, from the recommendations across the thread to those diametrically, opposed to your glorification of tyrants, terrorists and Taliban. What would you call the Baloch? Are they not azaadi-pasand? Had kartey ho, yaar ... ab to akl daudaiye!

prince | 12 years ago | Reply may almighty place them in heaven.... they may be terrorists to some, militants for others but freedom fighters for us all Kashmiris.

NJ | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: Are you talking about Sri Lankan freedom fighters!!!! Is pakistan also involved in that!!!

Omar Haroon | 12 years ago | Reply @Rajat: That's a rather large typo to have gone by unnoticed. I can understand if this was an article about some faraway country but this? C'mon editors get your geography facts right before posting such articles. Reflects rather badly on you to exhibit such unprofessional standards.

prashant | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: is that the reason why Osama bin laden was in Pakistan because for you he was a Freedom fighter and then what about Balochistan aren't Baloch people are freedom fighters also?

shahazad | 12 years ago | Reply @shehzad because of us ..we have been training militants and sending them to kashmir.. now they have become big problem for us ..they have become taliban..

ghairatmand | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: yes that we will never know. But what we know for sure the people gunned down by LeT terrorists in Mumbai were all innocent.

Kasim | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: Do you expect Indian Army to protect those Terrorists? We have protected those like Rogues and now a days suffering from their retaliation. Atleast they are clever not to repeat our action.

sumeet | 12 years ago | Reply @Rajat,they got this news from LTTE news agency.BTW,keep up the good work,the whole nation is behind you.salute you indian army.

Blithe | 12 years ago | Reply The 700k Indian army sequestering the rights of the Kashmiris are the real terrorists. Obama got corrupted by arms deals; otherwise Kashmir was to be solved within the entire South Asian context, including Afghanistan. Obama had conveniently forgotten his election pledge.

king | 12 years ago | Reply @Shehzad khan Niazi: Same thing in baluchistan right?

king | 12 years ago | Reply Editor please correct "Sri lanka" to "srinagar" in the article. These are horrible typos.

Rajat | 12 years ago | Reply Quote- "SRI LANKA: Indian police said Friday they had killed three militants suspected of being from the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group in a fierce gunbattle in restive Kashmir." Sri Lanka???.... lol..... Its Srinagar by the way

Shehzad khan Niazi | 12 years ago | Reply @shamra: militant or freedom fighters or innocent people. God knows ... But why Indian army is doing extra judicial killings in Kashmir?

Hedgefunder | 12 years ago | Reply Good ! May it send out correct message to those who want to come on playing field!!

shamra | 12 years ago | Reply Good Riddance from them..

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