Srinagar: A wanted Jaish-e-Mohammed commander, whose journey from timber smuggler to terror trader spanned two decades in Jammu and Kashmir, was killed in an encounter with security forces. tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Wednesday, two years after joining the Pakistan-based outfit full-time.
45-year-old Shamsuddin murdered Sophie, Surname Sham Sofi, coincides with the arrest of five more overground operatives of various organizations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as part of a crackdown on Kashmir’s terror ecosystem, which has given rise to new threats of apparently lurking Have given.
Sophie was part of a group of terrorists surrounded by a joint team of Police, Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF in Tral’s Wagad area, where the BJP councilor Rakesh Pandita | He was killed by a branch of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba last June.
“We launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area after receiving information from the Awantipora police about terrorist activity there. The hiding militants opened fire on the forward forces, triggering a gunfight in which one of them was killed. The killed terrorist turned out to be Jaish commander Sophie Ho,” said a police officer.
Sofi, a resident of Satura Tral in Pulwama district, found his whereabouts in militancy as an overground worker who provided logistic and other support to Jaish terrorists from Pakistan. She was arrested in 2004 under the Public Safety Act, but continued her relationship with Jaish after its release, mainly through the arrangement of shelters for terrorists in the Tral area. IGP (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said he joined Jaish in 2019 as a commander, carrying out a series of attacks on security forces and civilians.
Sophie, whose brother Minister The Hizbul aided the Mujahideen until it changed allegiance to Jaish, was also known to radicalize and recruit local youth for the organisation. He is the eighth ultra killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday, when five Army personnel were killed while fighting militant infiltrators in Jammu’s border district of Poonch.
IGP Kumar said arms, ammunition and various incriminating material were recovered from the Tral encounter site.
In other counter-terrorism success of the day, a series of raids by the NIA at several places in Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts led to the arrest of five terrorist suspects identified as Mohammad Hanif Chiralu, Hafeez. Owais Daro, Mateen Bhat and Arif Farooq Bhat. The agency had on Tuesday picked up four suspects in connection with a plot to strike in Jammu and Kashmir and major Indian cities. An NIA spokesperson said the conspiracy involved Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and Al Badr.
Several electronic devices and incriminating documents were seized during raids on two buildings in Srinagar.
45-year-old Shamsuddin murdered Sophie, Surname Sham Sofi, coincides with the arrest of five more overground operatives of various organizations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as part of a crackdown on Kashmir’s terror ecosystem, which has given rise to new threats of apparently lurking Have given.
Sophie was part of a group of terrorists surrounded by a joint team of Police, Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF in Tral’s Wagad area, where the BJP councilor Rakesh Pandita | He was killed by a branch of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba last June.
“We launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area after receiving information from the Awantipora police about terrorist activity there. The hiding militants opened fire on the forward forces, triggering a gunfight in which one of them was killed. The killed terrorist turned out to be Jaish commander Sophie Ho,” said a police officer.
Sofi, a resident of Satura Tral in Pulwama district, found his whereabouts in militancy as an overground worker who provided logistic and other support to Jaish terrorists from Pakistan. She was arrested in 2004 under the Public Safety Act, but continued her relationship with Jaish after its release, mainly through the arrangement of shelters for terrorists in the Tral area. IGP (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said he joined Jaish in 2019 as a commander, carrying out a series of attacks on security forces and civilians.
Sophie, whose brother Minister The Hizbul aided the Mujahideen until it changed allegiance to Jaish, was also known to radicalize and recruit local youth for the organisation. He is the eighth ultra killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday, when five Army personnel were killed while fighting militant infiltrators in Jammu’s border district of Poonch.
IGP Kumar said arms, ammunition and various incriminating material were recovered from the Tral encounter site.
In other counter-terrorism success of the day, a series of raids by the NIA at several places in Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts led to the arrest of five terrorist suspects identified as Mohammad Hanif Chiralu, Hafeez. Owais Daro, Mateen Bhat and Arif Farooq Bhat. The agency had on Tuesday picked up four suspects in connection with a plot to strike in Jammu and Kashmir and major Indian cities. An NIA spokesperson said the conspiracy involved Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and Al Badr.
Several electronic devices and incriminating documents were seized during raids on two buildings in Srinagar.
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