{"id":33835,"date":"2019-07-20T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T07:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33835"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T07:12:06","slug":"militants-kill-policeman-in-indian-controlled-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33835","title":{"rendered":"Militants Kill Policeman In Indian-Controlled Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, July 20 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; A policeman serving as personal security officer (PSO) of a pro-India Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, was shot dead by militants yesterday, in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policeman was attacked in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district, about 44 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Militants today shot dead PSO of PDP leader, Sajad Mufti, at Baba Mohalla in Bijbehara,&#8221; a police official posted in Anantnag said. &#8220;Though he was removed to Bijbehara hospital, doctors there declared him dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, the policeman was standing guard outside a mosque, where Sajjad Mufti had gone to offer Friday afternoon congregational prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sajad Mufti is cousin of former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti and lives in Bijbehara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports said, the militants also snatched the service rifle of the slain policeman and escaped form the spot. However, police are yet to confirm the weapon snatching in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, no militant outfit has claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both in full. Since their independence from Britain, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir.&#8211; NNN-PTI <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, July 20 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; A policeman serving as personal security officer (PSO) of a pro-India Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, was shot dead by militants yesterday, in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir. The policeman was attacked in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district, about 44 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}