Indian forces shoot dead Kashmir rebel leader

Indian policemen rush towards their armored vehicle near the site of a gun battle in Srinagar today.

SRINAGAR: Indian government forces shot dead the leader of restive Kashmir’s largest militant group on Sunday, authorities said. Hizbul Mujahideen leader Saifullah Mir – also known as Musaib and Doctor Saif, as he treated militants injured in encounters with Indian forces – was killed in a gun battle in the Rangreth area of Srinagar near the main airport, police said.Rebel groups have fought for decades for Kashmir’s independence or its merger with Pakistan, and enjoy broad popular support.

Mir, 31, who was mostly active in Kashmir’s southern districts of Pulwama, Kulgam and Shopian, studied biology and worked as a technician before joining the rebel outfit in 2014, officials said. Counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir – where India stations more than 500,000 troops – had been stepped up since the start of India’s nationwide coronavirus lockdown in late March, with more than 100 militants killed so far this year, police said.

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