Hizbul Mujahideen militant killed in gunbattle in J&K
In the ensuing gunfight, one of the oldest surviving Hizb militants identified as Azad Hussain Wani alias Waseem was killed.
A self-styled district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir in the wee hours on Saturday.Acting on a tip-off that some militants were hiding in Kaundi-Jagote forest belt in Doda district, Rashtriya Rifles troops and police launched a cordon-and-search operation.In the ensuing gunfight, one of the oldest surviving Hizb militants identified as Azad Hussain Wani alias Waseem was killed, SP (Doda) Virender Sharma said.A pistol, two magazines and some ammunition rounds were recovered from the scene, he said.Wani had joined militancy in October 1998 and was involved in the killing of a carpenter, who had carved out a hideout for him in Marmat forest belt, the SP said.The slain militant was also involved in other killings, planting of IEDs and extortion, a defence spokesman said.He killed a territorial army jawan in September 2005. In August 2007, Wani killed his wife Mubina Begum and married another woman Najiya.Wani was a self-styled HM commander of Doda district for the past several years, the spokesman said.Wani's brother Atta Mohammad, also a terrorist, was killed in an encounter with security forces in 1995.