{"id":309574,"date":"2019-02-18T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309574"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:38:26","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-pulwama-attack-mastermind-kamran-killed-in-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-pulwama-attack-mastermind-kamran-killed-in-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Pulwama attack mastermind Kamran killed in encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-309575 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190218-164832__01-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190218-164832__01-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190218-164832__01-696x584.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190218-164832__01-501x420.jpg 501w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190218-164832__01.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Security forces on Monday gunned down a top terrorist of the Jaish e Mohammad, the Pakistan-based group and the mastermind of the\u00a0Pulwama terror attack\u00a0that killed at least 40 CRPF personnel on Thursday. Kamran, one of the three terrorists killed in an encounter. He was a close aide of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Another top Jaish terrorist\u00a0killed in gunfight was Hilal Ahmed, a local bomb specialist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted, \u201c#Pulwama encounter update: Third #terrorist killed. One #colleague HC Abdul Rashid martyred in the #encounter. Identities &amp; affiliations of killed terrorists being ascertained. Arms &amp; ammunition recovered. Case registered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kamran was among the three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists killed in the encounter, which claimed the lives of four soldiers, including a major.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He was an Afghan war veteran and an IED specialist and joined the terror group in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces on Monday gunned down a top terrorist of the Jaish e Mohammad, the Pakistan-based group and the mastermind of the\u00a0Pulwama terror attack\u00a0that killed at least 40 CRPF personnel on Thursday. Kamran, one of the three terrorists killed in an encounter. He was a close aide of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar. Another top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309576,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574\/revisions\/309576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}