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Zeenat-ul-Islam, a top Al-Badr commander, is believed to have been involved in militancy since 2008.
The top commander of the terror group Al-Badr was killed along with another terrorist in an encounter with security forces in the Katpora area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district Saturday, the Indian Army confirmed late in the evening.
Zeenat-ul-Islam was one of the three most-wanted terrorists for security forces in Kashmir. The second slain militant has been identified as Shakeel Ahmad Dar alias Faisal of Chilipora, Shopian, sources said.
Considered an improvised explosive device (IED) expert, Zeenat is believed to have been involved in militancy since 2008, and among the longest surviving local terrorists.
A key terror recruiter in the Valley, Zeenat was among the accused in the 23 February 2017 Shopian attack in which three Army personnel and one civilian woman were killed.
Sources said Saturday’s encounter started as the troops of 34 Rashtriya Rifles, the 18 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and the special operations group, Kulgam, arrived in Katpora for a cordon-and-search operation following a specific input about the presence of Zeenat and other terrorists in the area.
The security forces had also brought Zeenat’s father to the encounter site to appeal to him to surrender, the sources added, but the terrorists opened fire when they sensed the team was closing in on them.
Link: https://theprint.in/security/one-of...s-zeenat-ul-islam-killed-in-encounter/177102/