23/07/2026
SRINAGAR, Jul 22: A Jammu and Kashmir Police head constable deployed on Amarnath Yatra security duty was martyred after being shot by a lone terrorist in Anantnag town on Wednesday, triggering a massive counter-terrorism crackdown across six districts of the Kashmir Valley in which more than 1,000 suspected overground workers and other suspects were detained for questioning, officials said.
The martyrdom of Head Constable Ashiq Hussain Qureshi at Lal Chowk in Anantnag was the first terror attack targeting police personnel in the Kashmir Valley this year and prompted security forces to launch extensive raids, searches and checking operations across South and Central Kashmir as well as Srinagar.
Officials said the attacker, believed to be a Pakistani terrorist, opened fire on Qureshi at around 12.30 pm while the policeman was making purchases at a shop in Lal Chowk.
Qureshi, a resident of Beerwah in Budgam district and posted with the Jammu and Kashmir Police's IRP 3rd Battalion,...