{"id":23583,"date":"2018-11-28T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23583"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:24:28","slug":"fighter-accused-in-kashmir-journalists-murder-killed-in-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23583","title":{"rendered":"Fighter accused in Kashmir journalist’s murder killed in gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security forces in Indian-administered\u00a0<\/span>Kashmir<\/a>\u00a0claim they have killed a senior fighter believed to be involved in the murder of a prominent Kashmiri journalist in June.<\/p>\n

Naveed Jatt, the fighter who was killed after a gun battle, was a member of the Pakistan-based armed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, police said on Wednesday, adding that he was part of the group of assailants who killed journalist Shujaat Bukhari.<\/p>\n

Bukhari was killed in a daring attack<\/a> inside Srinagar’s high-security press area on June 14, while he was getting into his car.<\/p>\n

Police said on Wednesday that Jatt and another fighter were killed after they were trapped by soldiers, paramilitary forces and a police forces surrounding the village of Chattergam in the central Kashmir valley.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

LeT, the proscribed group India blames for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, is one of several groups that has been fighting Indian soldiers for decades, seeking independence for Kashmir or a merger with Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jatt had dramatically escaped in February from a hospital in Srinagar where he was brought from jail for a check-up two years after his arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bukhari was an editor for the English-language Rising Kashmir, two other daily newspapers and a weekly. He was an advocate for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute and was often part of peace conferences between India<\/a> and Pakistan attended by former diplomats and generals from both countries.<\/p>\n

Violence in Kashmir has left tens of thousands of people dead. This year has been the bloodiest in nearly a decade with at least 400 killed so far, including 145 civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the partition of the subcontinent following independence from Britain in 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n

India maintains some 500,000 soldiers in the part of the territory it controls and regularly accuses Pakistan of arming and training rebels for attacks on Indian forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Islamabad denies this, saying it only provides diplomatic support to a Kashmiri struggle for self-determination.<\/span><\/p>\n

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People inspect a house damaged in the gun battle in\u00a0the village of Chattergam, central Kashmir valley<\/span>\u00a0[Danish Ismail\/Reuters]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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