Asaduddin Owaisi of the All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Saturday expressed anguish over the dying of 4 Indian safety personnel and questioned the purpose of permitting the India-Pakistan cricket World Cup match at Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad amid the continual terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir.

Calling the Anantnag encounter a “failure” of the federal government, Owaisi stated, “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.”

The operation to flush out terrorists from the dense forest space within the Anantnag district entered into its fourth day on Saturday. On Thursday, three troopers – Colonel Manpreet Singh, commanding officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Aashish Dhonchak from the identical battalion, and DSP of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Muzamil Bhat had been killed within the encounter. Another soldier additionally succumbed to his accidents on Friday.

According to officers, safety forces have deployed drones and helicopters to surveil the hilly terrain and determine the places of the terrorists within the forests at Gadole within the Kokernag space of the south Kashmir district.

Additional director normal of police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar stated that the operation was launched on the premise of particular enter.

“Retired police/Army officers should avoid ‘ambush hypothesis’. It is a specific input-based ops. Ops is in progress and all 2-3 trapped terrorists will be neutralised,” he stated.

3 terrorists killed in Baramulla

Meanwhile, a day after a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror module was unearthed within the Baramulla with the arrest of two terrorist associates and restoration of arms and ammunition, safety forces on Saturday neutralised three terrorists within the district. The counter-terror operation was nonetheless underway close to the Line of Control in Uri.

(With inputs from businesses)