First time: Hair wig seized from slain militant in Kashmir

Srinagar, Jun 20 (UNI) For the first time since the outbreak of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in the late 1980s, security forces seized a hair wig from a top Pakistani commander who was killed after a fierce gun-battle in Bandipora district early today.

A police spokesman said security forces seized a hair wig, a satellite phone, two handsets, a diary one pistol with a magazine and five rounds from the possession of the slain militant.

He was identified as Shaheen, a resident of Pakistan and a self-styled district commander of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen outfit.

The spokesman said the recoveries were made from the house of Ghulam Nabi Zargar at Muslimabad in Bandipora district of north Kashmir from where the militants attacked the security forces.

He said Zargar, his daughter Nazima and son Mehraj-ud-din besides two BSF personnel were wounded in the gun-battle.

Zargar later succumbed to his injuries at the Sri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital here.

UNI