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Jawan killed in ongoing gun battle between security forces, terrorists in J&K’s Doda
By Ravi Krishnan Khajuria | Edited by Sparshita Saxena | Hindustan Times, Jammu
UPDATED ON MAY 17, 2020 12:33 PM IST
There has been a spurt in terror activities across J&K amid Covid-19 pandemic.
In Hizbul’s Kashmir terror team, ‘military adviser’ is most brutal: Cop
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2020 03:41 PM IST
Syed Salahuddin’s five sons live in Kashmir and have not picked up the gun, a sharp contrast to the hundreds of Kashmiris who have been radicalised to join his terror group over three decades
2G mobile internet services restored in Kashmir
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2020 06:34 PM IST
Prepaid mobile phone services were restored on Friday, but mobile internet connectivity remained suspended till May 11, or the 17th day of the holy month of Ramzan, due to apprehensions about possible militant attacks.
At NSA Ajit Doval’s mega Kashmir meet, a stinker for Pak and a piece of advice
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2020 09:43 PM IST
NSA Ajit Doval has advised security forces in Kashmir to focus on developing actionable intelligence and improve operational synergy among forces fronting the counter-terror operations
J-K administration may keep internet suspended for a few more days
By Mir Ehsan | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2020 08:26 PM IST
The police have apprehensions that Naikoo’s killing could trigger massive clashes like those witnessed after the killing of Burhan Wani in 2016, and believe it would be better for mobile internet services to remain suspended for some more time.
Riyaz Naikoo encounter: Restrictions tightened across Kashmir to maintain law and order
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Niyati Singh | Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 08, 2020 03:15 PM IST
Concertina wires and heavy deployment of security force personnel dotted the roads around densely populated areas of the city and elsewhere in the valley to ensure that only people with movement passes were out of their homes, officials said.
Pak launches terror’s new face in Kashmir, Imran Khan follows up on Twitter
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 08, 2020 07:02 PM IST
The Resistance Front, TRF is one of the continuing attempts by Pakistan’s ISI to put an India label on terror activities that it sponsors in Jammu and Kashmir
Hizb commander Riyaz Naikoo buried 100km from his hometown to avoid crowding
By Mir Ehsan | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 08, 2020 01:48 AM IST
The 35-year-old top Hizbul leader and was killed in his village, Gulzarpora Beighpora, after a five-hour gunfight on Wednesday, in what security experts described as a big success for the Indian forces.
Top Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo killed in encounter
By HT Correspondents | Hindustan Times, Srinagar/New Delhi, Srinagar/new Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2020 03:07 AM IST
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.
‘Leader decapitation always a blow’: Experts on Hizbul chief Riyaz Naikoo’s killing
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2020 10:36 PM IST
Naikoo’s killing came days after five security men, including the commanding officer of a Rashtriya Rifles battalion and a major, were killed in a counterterror operation in north Kashmir’s Handwara.
Riyaz Naikoo, schoolteacher to one of Kashmir Valley’s most wanted men
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2020 06:12 AM IST
Before joining the Hizbul Mujahideen, Naikoo used to teach mathematics at a private school in Pulwama. The son of a farmer, Naikoo was detained by security forces during the unrest of 2010 and released in 2012. He was believed to have been radicalised around the same time.
Top Hizbul terrorist Riyaz Naikoo was hiding in south Kashmir bunker; killed in overnight op
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 08, 2020 12:47 AM IST
The 32-year-old Riyaz Naikoo, also known by his alias Zubair ul Islam and Bin Qasim, was counted among Kashmir’s most-experienced terrorists.
Riyaz Naikoo, top Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist, killed in Pulwama encounter
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2020 04:47 PM IST
The operation to nab Riyaz Naikoo was launched in his native Beigpora Gulazapura in Awantipora by the joint team of Jammu and Kashmir police and security forces on Tuesday night.
Five days after Pulwama incident, Hizbul Mujahideen warns of suicide attacks by local men
By Mir Ehsan | Hindustan Times, Srinagar, Srinagar
UPDATED ON FEB 20, 2019 10:12 AM IST
This is the first time that an indigenous militant group in Kashmir has warned of suicide attacks. Till now, such attacks, though few, were carried out by the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistan-based terror group active in Kashmir.
Mehbooba’s visits to militants’ families a pre-poll drama: Hizbul
By Mir Ehsan | Srinagar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 06, 2019 11:34 PM IST
Naikoo said militants and civilians were also killed when Mufti was in power. He added Mufti’s statements then were aimed at appeasing her erstwhile alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Delhi.
Punjab’s ‘anonymity model’ could help safeguard policemen’s kin in J-K
By Vinod Sharma | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 01, 2018 07:42 AM IST
Like in the Khalistan movement in Punjab through the eighties and nineties, the militants’ objective in Kashmir is to demoralise the state police. The Punjab administration had countered that threat by moving officers and men out of their home districts without formal transfer orders.
Thousands in Valley queue up to be a cop
By Ashiq Hussain | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
PUBLISHED ON AUG 31, 2018 11:29 PM IST
Experts say dearth of jobs in the state and the security of a government job are the two main factors that drive Kashmiri youth into the police and the army.
Who is Riyaz Naikoo, Kashmir’s most wanted militant?
By Rajesh Ahuja | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 31, 2018 11:54 PM IST
Riyaz Naikoo, 30, started figuring prominently on the radar of security agencies after the killing of militant poster boy Burhan Wani in 2016. He carries a reward of Rs 12 lakh on his head.
After tit-for-tat abductions, all 11 relatives of J&K police released by militants
By Mir Ehsan | Srinagar/New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 31, 2018 11:31 PM IST
Late on Friday evening, the militants released all 11 relatives of policemen after the state released the kin of the three militants detained earlier.
Hizbul commander tells Kashmiri women to avoid chatting with soldiers on social media
By Ashiq Hussain | Hindustan Times, Srinagar
UPDATED ON MAY 30, 2018 05:57 PM IST
In an audio statement, Hizbul Mujahideen’s Riyaz Naikoo asks young men to post their experiences on social media if army “pushes them” for providing information about militants.