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Tiranga flies atop active terrorist houses in Valley

Such was the fear of terrorists in the Valley that none dared to display the Tricolour openly on the streets, let alone make hoist the flag on these Pakistani- trained commanders.

Updated on: Aug 14, 2022, 19:40:52 IST
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The new milestone was achieved in Kashmir on the eve of India's 75th Independence Day when residents and family members of active terror commanders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen hoisted Indian national flags at their residences in the Valley.

Father of slain terrorist Rayaz Naikoo hoisted the Indian national flag at his residence at Beighpora village of South Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Father of slain terrorist Rayaz Naikoo hoisted the Indian national flag at his residence at Beighpora village of South Kashmir's Pulwama district.

Such was the fear of terrorists in the Valley that none dared to display the Tricolour openly on the streets, let alone make hoist the flag on these Pakistani- trained commanders.

The Trianga was hoisted at the houses of active terrorists Gowhar Manzoor Mir in Tral's Hardumir village in Pulwama, Asif Sheikh in Tral's Monghama village and Aijaz Ah. Bhat.

The Trianga was hoisted at the houses of active terrorists Gowhar Manzoor Mir in Tral's Hardumir village in Pulwama.

In Budgam, Sarai Chadoora, the flag was placed on the house of LeT's active terrorist Aqib Nazir Shergojree.

In Budgam, Sarai Chadoora, the flag was placed on the house of LeT's active terrorist Aqib Nazir Shergojree.
House of killed terrorist Hamad Khan in Tral

The flag will be hoisted at the residences of every active terrorist in the Valley as part of 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign, which was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to celebrate India's 75th Independence Day.

Not only this, the father of slain terrorist Rayaz Naikoo also hoisted the Indian national flag at his residence at Beighpora village of South Kashmir's Pulwama district. Naikoo, 35, a top terrorist of the Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed in an encounter with security forces at his village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district in 2020. Naikoo, also known as Zubair ul Islam and Bin Qasim, who emerged as the face of the Hizbul in the Valley and propagated radicalism through audio and video messages on social media — much like his predecessor Burhan Wani — and another terrorist were shot dead after a five-hour gunfight.

The family members of killed terrorist Hamad Khan also hoisted the flag at his house in Tral's Seer.

 
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Shishir Gupta

Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.

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