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Youth killed, 70 injured across

south Kashmir Naib tehsildar, CEO among wounded

Resistance camp calls for shutdown on May 28, 29Tral 'Chalo' on May 30Srinagar, May 27: The joint resistance leader-ship including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik has called for complete shutdown on May 28 and 29 against killing of Hizb commander Sabzar Ahmad and his associate in Tral, and six other militants

Top Hizb commander Sabzar killed in Tral

Tral Fallout

Curfew in Srinagar areas, restrictions in South Kashmir till further orders

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, May 27: Authorities on Saturday announced that curfew will remain in force till further orders in the areas falling under seven police sta-tions in Srinagar district. District administrations of

Internet services, prepaid mobile outgoing calls barred

MUDASIR YAQOOB

Srinagar, May 27: Mobile internet services were suspended in Kashmir on Saturday afternoon, a day after authorities lifted a month-long ban on the social media.

Outgoing calls on pre-paid mobiles were also snapped in the evening

KHALID GUL

Anantnag/ Tral, May 27: A civilian was killed and at least 70 others, including students and two govern-ment officials, sustained injuries as protests rocked entire south Kashmir on Saturday following the killing of top Hizbul-Muja-hideen commander Sabzar Ahmad in a gunbattle with government forces in Tral area. The condition of one of the injured student is stated to be critical.

Skull ‘shattered’, student battles for life at SMHS hospital8 suffer bullet, 7 eye pellet injuries

ZEHRU NISSA

Srinagar, May 27: A teenaged student from Mattan, Anant-nag, who suffered grave head

From ‘hardworking farmer to tech-savvy fighter’

IRFAN AMIN MALIK

Tral, May 27: Sabzar Ahmad Bhat alias Soab Don, who succeeded slain Burhan Wani as the acting chief of Hizbul Mujahideen, is believed to have picked up arms when government forces killed Burhan's brother Khalid Muzaf-far Wani on April 13, 2015 in Kamla forest area of Tral.

Sabzar's journey

Pakistan condemns Sabzar’s killingIslamabad, May 27: Pakistan on Saturday con-demned the killing of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat and other militants in Jammu and Kashmir, and called upon the inter-national community, including the UN and human rights organizations, to intervene in the matter.

The Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz urged the international community to ask India to imme-diately stop the "ruthless killing of defenceless Kashmiris".

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People carry body of Hizb Commander Sabzar Bhat to his home. Mir Wasim/GK

An injured in south Kashmir on Saturday being shifted to SMHS hospital Srinagar. Mubashir Khna/GK

LeT, Hizb pay tributes to Sabzar, Faizan Srinagar, May 27: Militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen paid rich trib-utes to the militant commander Sabzar Ahmad and his associate Faizan Ahmed, killed in a gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Tral area on Saturday.

The LeT Chief commander, Mehmood Shah, while paying rich tributes to Sabzar Ahmad and Faizan in a tele-statement to a local news agency CNS said, “Kashmiris are

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6 militants killed near LoC: ArmyGK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 27: Army on Saturday said it foiled a major infiltration bid near Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir by killing six mili-tants. Army’s Srinagar based spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said, “A group of six

militants was intercepted at the LoC in Rampur sector that falls between Uri and Gulmarg, this morning. Soldiers noticed their movement and challenged them. They opened fire which was retaliated triggering a fierce gunbattle in which six militants were killed.”

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2 houses destroyed, 2 militants escape:

Claim locals ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, May 27: A top Hizbul Mujahideen com-mander Sabzar Ahmad Bhat and his close aide Faizan Ahmed were killed in a gun-fight with the government forces at Tral in south Kash-mir’s Pulwama district on Saturday.

A top police official said, “Soon after the militants believed to be Sabzar and his two aides, attacked an army patrol at Saimoh vil-lage in Tral on Friday eve-ning, forces laid a siege of around three villages. There was no clue about the exact location of the house where the militants were hiding but we were sure that militants were holed up.

Sabzar's killing triggers spontaneous shutdown, clashes

ABID BASHIR/SYED RIZWAN GEELANI

Srinagar, May 27: At least 55 persons, including 25 police-

men, sustained injuries in clashes that broke out in old city and in some uptown areas in Srinagar on Saturday follow-

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