Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, May 12: Police today pasted posters and announced suitable award for providing information about three militants involved in the abduction and killing of Army officer Lieutenant Umar Fayaz in Shopian. And in North Kashmir security forces along the National Highway are on alert after information about movement of militants.
Army Lieutenant Umar Fayaz was kidnapped from a wedding party and later his bullet-riddled body was recovered from Hermain, Shopian on May 10. Lt Fayaz was on leave after joining the Army and was posted at Akhnoor in Jammu district.
Today, posters in Urdu, along with pictures of three militants appeared at some places in Shopian. The posters have identified militants as Abbas Ahmad Bhat, Gayas-ul-Islam and Ishfaq Thokar.
The poster reads that any person providing information about these “criminals” (terrorists) would be suitably rewarded and the identity of the informer will be kept secret.”
Similar posters have appeared in South Kashmir announcing rewards for providing information about the militants responsible for attack on cash van of Jammu and Kashmir Bank in which five police personnel and two bank employees were killed and militants involved in attack on Army patrol and other incidents.
And in North Kashmir, security forces have established nakas at several places on the National Highway after reports about militants trying to shift from South Kashmir to North Kashmir.
Sources said that security forces have information that the militants are using the National Highway to travel between South and North Kashmir. They said that these nakas have been established to prevent such movement. At these nakas security forces are conducting surprise checks of vehicles and frisking of the passengers.
The surprise checks at these nakas has been going on since yesterday. However, no one was arrested at these nakas since yesterday.
In the meantime, militants today appeared in public at Hajin township of Bandipora district. Two foreign militants identified as Mehmood Bhai and Chotu appeared in Masjid in Banger Mohalla area of Hajin and later marched with the protestors toward’s Hajin Chowk.
Militants threatened those who are working for Army and police as informers and asked them to desist from such activities.
Meanwhile, the stone-pelting clashes erupted in downtown area of Nowhatta soon after the conclusion of Friday prayers. The police used teargas canisters against the stone-throwers who continued pelting stones on security forces. Although clashes ended after more than an hour, they again erupted in the evening and spread to adjoining Rajouri Kadal, Gojwara and Saraf Kadal areas.
The clashes between protesters and security forces also erupted at Sopore Town of Baramulla district and Trehgam in Kupwara district. Police said they used tearsmoke and pepper gas to disperse the stone-pelters. The post-Friday stone-pelting clashes were also reported from Tral in Pulwama district and in Memandar village of Shopian district. No one was, however, reported injured.
According to the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, class work in SP Higher Secondary School shall remain suspended on May 13 as a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa today threatened to behead Kashmiri separatist leaders for calling Kashmir a political issue, saying they will be hanged if they try to create obstacles in militants’ struggle for implementing Islamic system.
In a audio message delivered through a video clip which contained a montage of slides flayed recent statement of three separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik wherein they had said that the ongoing separatist movement in Kashmir is not religious but political.
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