{"id":308516,"date":"2019-01-25T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308516"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:27:04","slug":"jk-baramulla-district-declared-militancy-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jk-baramulla-district-declared-militancy-free\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K: Baramulla district declared militancy-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300677 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-543x420.jpg 543w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the killing of the three militants &#8211;\u00a0identified as Suhaib Farooq Akhoon, Mohsin Mushtaq Bhat and Nasir Ahmad Darzi &#8211; on Wednesday at Benar, the J&amp;K Police has declared the North Kashmir district of Baramulla free of militancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFollowing the killing of three local militants, Baramulla has become first police district of Kashmir with no surviving militant as on date. J&amp;K Police extends its thanks to the local population for all their support in providing a better security environment in the district,\u201d the police said in a handout.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Unlike four South Kashmir districts which boast around 150 militants Baramulla district had fewer militants. The last three militants hailed from the Baramulla town which remained shut on two days to mourn their killings.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Only district in North Kashmir with largest concentration of the militants is Kupwara. According to a police estimate, the number of militants in the district is comparable to South Kashmir. However, unlike South Kashmir, most of these militants are foreigners.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the killing of the three militants &#8211;\u00a0identified as Suhaib Farooq Akhoon, Mohsin Mushtaq Bhat and Nasir Ahmad Darzi &#8211; on Wednesday at Benar, the J&amp;K Police has declared the North Kashmir district of Baramulla free of militancy. \u201cFollowing the killing of three local militants, Baramulla has become first police district of Kashmir with no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[4759,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308517,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308516\/revisions\/308517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}