TopicHizbul Mujahiddeen

Topic: Hizbul Mujahiddeen

Top Hizbul Mujahideen commander killed in encounter with security forces in J&K’s Kupwara

PTI - 7 July, 2021

Mehrazuddin Halwai, a top commander of the militant group who was involved in several terror crimes, was killed Wednesday in retaliatory action, the police said.

2019 communication blackout, Pakistan — why 2020 saw spike in Kashmir youth joining militants

Azaan Javaid - 6 January, 2021

Police data shows 2020 saw the highest number of youth join militant groups after 2018. Experts say Pakistan's agenda is to project militancy as 'local resistance'.

Hizbul chief Salahuddin, Indian Mujahideen’s Bhatkal among 18 designated as terrorists

Ananya Bhardwaj - 27 October, 2020

Home affairs ministry designates 18 new names as terrorists under the amended UAPA 2019. Prior to the law, only organisations could be tagged as terrorist entities.

Hizbul Mujahideen trying to re-establish base in North Kashmir, says Army

PTI - 5 September, 2020

This came a day after 3 Hizbul militants were killed in an encounter in Northern Kashmir where only ultras from Lashkar-e-Toiba & Jaish-e-Mohammad had been neutralised in recent years.

118 militants, 11 of them Pakistanis, killed in 6 months, 48% dip in recruitment: J&K Police

Azaan Javaid - 1 July, 2020

Of the 118 slain militants, 57 belonged to Hizbul Mujahideen, 24 to Lashkar-e-Taiba and 22 to Jaish-e-Mohammad, IGP, Kashmir, Viijay Kumar said.

J&K Police arrests slain militant’s mother for posing with gun, ‘recruiting men for terror’

Azaan Javaid - 28 June, 2020

55-year-old Naseema Banoo was arrested in connection with an FIR filed in 2018. A photograph showed her posing with a machine gun, sitting next to her militant son.

How the Riyaz Naikoo encounter unfolded, as his Beighpora village watched in ‘surprise’

Azaan Javaid - 11 May, 2020

Security forces took three days to zero in on and kill Riyaz Naikoo, who was one of the Valley’s most wanted and longest surviving militants.

How a phone call led to arrest of J&K cop Davinder Singh & two Hizbul terrorists

Snehesh Alex Philip - 4 February, 2020

J&K deputy superintendent of police Davinder Singh and two Hizbul terrorists, along with another 'key player' lawyer Irfan Ahmad Mir, were arrested last month.

How J&K cop Davinder’s ‘covert mission lie’ was exposed by militant he was ferrying

Azaan Javaid - 17 January, 2020

The DSP's narrative was undermined by captured militant's revelation that he knew him from earlier and the J&K police's own intel from the morning of the officer's arrest.

Not just JeM, Lashkar – this Islamic group in Louisiana & Michigan as dangerous for India

Clifford Smith - 10 December, 2019

Far too few Indians know about ICNA, its network, the millions of dollars it has and its grip on media. Now, it has turned its attention to India.

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India’s growth is not in dispute. But women not advancing in STEM holds us back

Dr Anju Malhotra - 28 June, 2022

The male-skewed STEM job market makes Indian parents educate their daughters in scientific fields not to increase their labour market value, but their marriage market value.