Security forces during a search operation after a militant attack at Srinagar-Jammu National highway, at Pampore in Pulwama District of South Kashmir. Two CRPF personnel were kille...
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A view of the mosque where two militants were hiding during an encounter with army soldiers, at Pampore in Pulwama District of South Kashmir. Both militants were killed without dam...
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A combo image of two screenshots shows a vehicle, carrying IED, being safely defused by the security forces in Pulwama district of J & K. Police, CRPF and Army defused the IED fit...
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CRPF personnel stand guard at the spot where deadly 2019 Pulwama terror attack took place, at Lethipora of Pulwama District, South Kashmir.
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CRPF personnel stand guard at the spot where deadly 2019 Pulwama terror attack took place, at Lethipora of Pulwama District. A memorial to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in the attac...
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Army personnel stand guard during a search and cordon operation at Khrew area of Pulwama district. SPO Shahbaz Ahmad was killed on the spot while a jawan injured during the gunfigh...
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Feb. 15, 2019
A protestor draped in the Indian Tricolor runs past burning vehicles which were set on fire during a protest against Pulwama terror attack, in Jammu.
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Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) associate, Muzafar Ahmed Wani, surrendered unconditionally before the Inspector General, BSF, Kashmir Frontier, in Pulwama. Wani was wanted in connection wi...
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Locals inspect the damaged houses where four Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants, including two Special Police officer's (SPO's) who escaped with service rifles and joined JeM ranks y...
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Poll officials at a polling station during the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Pulwama district.
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Villagers inspect a destroyed house after a gunbattle between security forces and militants at Pinglish area of Tral in Pulwama district of South Kashmir.
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Villagers walk past the debris of a destroyed house after a gunbattle between security forces and militants at Pinglish area of Tral in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. According...
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People salvage carpet flooring from a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar.
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People dismantle a portion of a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar. Two suspected rebels were killed in a gunbattle with forces in Kashmir, police sa...
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Convoy To Hell
The scene at Lethpora, on the Srinagar-Qazigund highway, after the suicide bomb attack
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Senior police and civil officers pay tribute to head constable Abdul Rashid, who was killed in an encounter with militants, at Pinglan in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. Three J...
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Protesters clash with police men amid tear gas smoke near the site of a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar.
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An army armored vehicle rushes towards the site of a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar. Tensions continued to rise in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kashmir, with seve...
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Flames and smoke billows from a residential building where militants are suspected to have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar.
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Flames and smoke billows from residential buildings where militants are suspected to have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar.
PM Narendra Modi's statement came days after Pakistan's Science & Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry admitted his country's role in the Pulwama attack.
The Pulwama attack case was solved by the NIA after piecing together the electronic evidence and statements of terrorists and their sympathisers arrested in different cases, an official said.
Security forces said they used tear smoke shells to force the holed up militants out of the mosque. They were then killed by the forces while maintaining the sanctity of the religious place, police said.