Bjp Workers Killed By Terrorists In Kashmir

According to the BJP, 23 party workers have been killed by terrorists in the last two years. One of them a Kashmiri Pandit, Rakesh Pandita was killed in June this year.

Twenty-three BJP leaders or functionaries have been attacked or killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir over the past two years, the party said Wednesday, a day after Javid Ahmad Dar was shot dead in south Kashmir's Kulgam district.

Three BJP workers, including a youth leader, were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. They had been travelling in a car when the terrorists fired at them at YK Pora area.

The fear of being vulnerable to terrorist attacks has gripped mainstream political workers across parties in Kashmir after the recent killing of a BJP leader and his two family members in Bandipore. Political workers say they are fearing for their lives; those whose security have been withdrawn are terrified.

A senior functionary of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP on Tuesday surrendered his security in Srinagar as a mark of protest against the withdrawal of security to the party activists by the government and the killing of party leader by terrorists on Saturday.

After the killing of BJP leader Gul Mohammad Mir by suspected terrorists in south Kashmir, serious questions of deliberate security lapses have been raised by his family as well as politicians in Jammu and Kashmir. The state BJP said that the security provided to around 40 other BJP workers had also been withdrawn through a decision taken earlier t...

As Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the first of the four-phased municipal elections after a hiatus of 13 years, voters in Jammu are queuing up at polling stations, but staying away in Kashmir. Brisk voting was observed in almost all the wards in Jammu region with Rajouri registering the highest votes, but only seven per cent voters turned up in Kash...

The last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Jammu and Kashmir local body polls was overshadowed by the killing of two National Conference workers by terrorists in Srinagar. The men killed were close aides of Shamima Firdous, the National Conference legislator from Habba Kadal.

A 34-year-old policeman was killed by terrorists when he was returning home after offering Eid prayers in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Fayaz Ahmed Shah, a constable in Jammu and Kashmir Police, was shot at outside an Eidgah in Awgam village. He died on the spot.

Shabir Ahmad Bhat was shot dead by terrorists at around 2:30 am at his home in Rakh-e-litter in Pulwama.

According to the BJP, 23 party workers have been killed by terrorists in the last two years. One of them a Kashmiri Pandit, Rakesh Pandita was killed in June this year.

Twenty-three BJP leaders or functionaries have been attacked or killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir over the past two years, the party said Wednesday, a day after Javid Ahmad Dar was shot dead in south Kashmir's Kulgam district.

Three BJP workers, including a youth leader, were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. They had been travelling in a car when the terrorists fired at them at YK Pora area.

The fear of being vulnerable to terrorist attacks has gripped mainstream political workers across parties in Kashmir after the recent killing of a BJP leader and his two family members in Bandipore. Political workers say they are fearing for their lives; those whose security have been withdrawn are terrified.

A senior functionary of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP on Tuesday surrendered his security in Srinagar as a mark of protest against the withdrawal of security to the party activists by the government and the killing of party leader by terrorists on Saturday.

After the killing of BJP leader Gul Mohammad Mir by suspected terrorists in south Kashmir, serious questions of deliberate security lapses have been raised by his family as well as politicians in Jammu and Kashmir. The state BJP said that the security provided to around 40 other BJP workers had also been withdrawn through a decision taken earlier t...

As Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the first of the four-phased municipal elections after a hiatus of 13 years, voters in Jammu are queuing up at polling stations, but staying away in Kashmir. Brisk voting was observed in almost all the wards in Jammu region with Rajouri registering the highest votes, but only seven per cent voters turned up in Kash...

The last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Jammu and Kashmir local body polls was overshadowed by the killing of two National Conference workers by terrorists in Srinagar. The men killed were close aides of Shamima Firdous, the National Conference legislator from Habba Kadal.

A 34-year-old policeman was killed by terrorists when he was returning home after offering Eid prayers in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Fayaz Ahmed Shah, a constable in Jammu and Kashmir Police, was shot at outside an Eidgah in Awgam village. He died on the spot.

Shabir Ahmad Bhat was shot dead by terrorists at around 2:30 am at his home in Rakh-e-litter in Pulwama.