September 15, 2026 08:02 am (IST)
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Slain Kashmiri youths belong to Hizbul Mujahideen: Outfit chief claims
Srinagar, Sept 15 (IBNS): Hizbul Mujahideen and United Jihad Council Chief Syed Salahuddin, based in Pakistan on Tuesday, confirmed that the three youths, whose bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from an orchard on Monday, were alleged militants who belonged to the outfit and claimed that they had been killed in custody by the police.
“All the three Amir Reshi, Ashiq Ahmed and Naveed were affiliated with Hizbul Mujhadeen. They had recently joined the outfit. Counter insurgent and Special Operation Group is responsible for the murder of these militants. The trio was active and they were tortured and subsequently killed in custody,” he said while addressing his outfit's cadres in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)
Lashkar-e-Islami has no existence. “By spreading a word that Hizb and Lashkar-e-Islami are at loggerheads, State Government and its agencies want to mislead people and these agencies can’t deceive people,” he said.
Police sources had on Monday said the deceased belonged to Leh and were allegedly killed in inter-group fight.
Syed Salahuddin said that by killing militants in custody the Indian forces and agents can’t weaken this ongoing freedom struggle. “The sacred blood of the martyrs will show its colour one day and nobody can save the ‘killers’ and their collaborators from their ‘dreaded end.”
Earlier, Jammu Kashmir Police said in a statement that Aamir Qadir Reshi of Sopore and 23-year-old Ashiq Wani of Lolipora of Pattan were associated with Lashker-e-Islam, a breakaway outfit of Hizbul Mujahideen formed by its rebel leader Abdul Qayyum Najjar.
Parts of north Kashmir including the native places of the slain youth observed a complete shutdown for the second day on Tuesday.
Separatists have called for a complete shutdown in Kashmir on Wednesday against the killings of three young men in north Kashmir.
Shutdown was called by Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik.
Meanwhile, JKLF Chief Mohammad Yasin Malik was detained along with his associates at Sangrama by police while he was on his way to Sopore to express sympathies with the bereaved families
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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