{"id":14162,"date":"2024-12-19T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2024-12-19T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T06:53:47","slug":"indian-soldiers-battle-rebels-in-kashmir-five-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/indian-soldiers-battle-rebels-in-kashmir-five-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian soldiers battle rebels in Kashmir, five killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Indian security forces in Kashmir on Thursday killed at least five suspected gunmen in ongoing clashes, the army said, the latest outbreak of violence in the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region.<br \/>\nKashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the chaotic end of British rule in 1947, and both countries claim the territory in full.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five terrorists have been neutralised by the security forces in the ongoing operation&#8221;, the Indian army&#8217;s Chinar Corps said, adding that two soldiers had been wounded in the firefight.<\/p>\n<p>Half a million Indian troops are deployed in the far northern region, battling a 35-year insurgency in which tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and rebels have been killed, including at least 120 this year.<br \/>\nRebel groups demand either independence or the region&#8217;s merger with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi regularly blames Pakistan for arming militants and helping them launch attacks, an allegation Islamabad denies.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government cancelled the territory&#8217;s partial autonomy in 2019, bringing the region under its direct rule.<\/p>\n<p>The territory of about 12 million people has since been ruled by a New Delhi-appointed governor who oversees a local government that voters elected in October in opposition to Modi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian security forces in Kashmir on Thursday killed at least five suspected gunmen in ongoing clashes, the army said, the latest outbreak of violence in the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region. Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the chaotic end of British rule in 1947, and both countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}