Three policemen, three fighters killed in occupied Kashmir
SRINAGAR: A Kashmir freedom fighter gunned down two policemen on a busy street in the disputed territory’s main city Srinagar on Friday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks around a visit by 24 foreign ambassadors.
In total, the surge in violence left three police officers and three freedom fighters dead, with the latest killings coming just hours after the envoys on the guided trip left the territory.
Access to held Kashmir has been restricted for foreigners since the government ended its semi-autonomy in 2019, and much of the Muslim-majority territory observed a shutdown during the diplomats’ stay.
Friday’s incident was the fourth involving anti-India fighters since the envoys arrived on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, freedom fighters on a motorbike shot and wounded the son of a well-known Srinagar restaurant owner who is not from Kashmir. Police said three people had been detained.
Three fighters were killed on Thursday during a clash with Indian forces in the Shopian area of the Kashmir valley.
And earlier on Friday, during another military search operation in the Beerwah area, fighters killed a police officer and injured another before escaping, police said.
Some remain in custody, though most restrictions have gradually been removed.
Ahead of the ambassadors’ visit — where the diplomats from a host of African, Asian, European and Latin American countries met local leaders — authorities lifted a curb on high-speed 4G internet.
India on Thursday rejected concerns raised by two UN rights experts that “demographic change on a linguistic, religious and ethnic basis” was underway in the territory.
Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2021
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