J&K Police Releases List of Wanted Terrorists

The Jammu and Kashmir Police Department has issued a list of the top ten militants to be targeted. The list, which was issued late Monday night on Twitter by the Kashmir Zone Police, contains seven terrorists who have been active for a while and three fresh recruits.

“Yousuf Kantroo , Reyaz Shetergund , Salim Parray, , Farooq Nali Abbas Sheikh, Ashraf Molvi, and Zubair Wani, are the top ten #targets. Umer Mushtaq, Saqib Manzoor, and Wakeel Shah Khandey are three new #terrorists”. Kashmir Zone Police sent out a tweet. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar was the tweeter.

Security forces used to dismiss terrorists after the emergence of militancy in Kashmir as a tactic to avoid bringing them into the spotlight while they were still at large. However, the policy appears to have evolved in recent years, with the police periodically issuing lists of wanted militants.

The police had previously issued a similar list of wanted terrorists in March, along with a reward for anyone who could offer information on them. The terrorists‘ pictures and names were also included in the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s March 13 tweet.

The police said on July 16 that they had killed 78 terrorists in Kashmir since January of this year. Some of the critical commanders participating in the attacks on the army were among them.

Meanwhile, according to authorities, a terrorist named Babar Ali was killed in a confrontation with security forces in Bandipora’s Chhandaji district on Tuesday. “Three terrorists were killed in an operation in the Shokbada region on 23^rd and 24^th July. Another terrorist managed to flee the woods and has been pursued since then”, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said.

“Information regarding his existence in hamlet Chhandaji was obtained last night, and an operation was conducted, during which a Pakistani terrorist from Pakistan’s Punjab, Babar Ali, was slain”, the DGP stated. In July, the three terrorists killed in Bandipora, Jammu, and Kashmir were members of the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).