Tag: Sopore

There have been a series of encounters between terrorists and security forces across Kashmir over the last few months.

Srinagar: One militant was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town on Wednesday. Police said security forces, after specific inputs about presence of militants, started a cordon and search operation yesterday afternoon in Wadoora Payeen village of Sopore town. “Hiding militants fired as the cordon around them was tightened. […]

Srinagar: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, including a Pakistani, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court here for killing a civilian in Kashmir’s Sopore district. The civilian, Suhail Ahamd Sofi, was gunned down by the two militants in March 2013. Sofi was a resident of Dobgah village in Sopore. Senior police officer Imtiyaz Hussain […]