Anantnag encounter: Asaduddin Owaisi hits out at govt, says 'And we are playing cricket' vs Pakistan
Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat's Ahmedabad. Owaisi even called the Anantnag encounter a ‘failure’ of the government. He said as ANI quoted, "My question to the prime minister is where is the anger he displayed at the time of Pulwama attack.
Our soldiers lost their lives and we are playing cricket in Ahmedabad…You said that the abrogation of Article 370 solved everything." As per details, the operation in the dense forest area in the Anantnag district entered into its fourth day on Saturday, where three soldiers - Colonel Manpreet Singh, commanding officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Aashish Dhonchak from the same battalion, and DSP of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Muzamil Bhat were killed in the encounter. Another soldier also succumbed to his injuries on Friday. ALSO READ: Baramulla encounter: ‘Firing from Pakistani post…’, says Indian Army on third terrorist killed The security forces have deployed drones and helicopters to surveil the hilly terrain and figure out the locations of the terrorists in the forests at Gadole in the Kokernag area of the south Kashmir district.
Additional director general of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said that the operation was launched based on specific input. "Retired police/Army officers should avoid 'ambush hypothesis'. It is a specific input-based op.
Ops are in progress and all 2-3 trapped terrorists will be neutralized," he said. Meanwhile, the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police foiled a major infiltration bid by killing three terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri town of Baramulla district, Brigadier PMS Dhillon, commander of the Pir Panjal Brigade, on 16 September. "Based on specific inputs, in a joint operation launched by the Indian Army and Jammu
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