{"id":24631,"date":"2026-07-09T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=24631"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:38:15","slug":"top-let-commander-killed-in-shopian-encounter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/top-let-commander-killed-in-shopian-encounter-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Top LeT commander killed in Shopian encounter: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopian, Jul 08: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, Zakir Ganie, has been killed in an ongoing anti-terror operation in Chanapora area of south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district, while another terrorist is believed to be holed up, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Zakir was trapped in the encounter for the last five days along with his accomplice. \u201cHe has been neutralised and his body was recovered from a cowshed today along with arms and ammunition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He described the killing as a major success for the security forces. \u201cFresh firing was heard near the encounter site, indicating the presence of another terrorist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Jammu and Kashmir police said, \u201cYou can run, but you cannot hide. One Lashkar terrorist neutralised by SOG Shopian, in a Jt Op, along with RR and CRPF\u201d. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopian, Jul 08: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, Zakir Ganie, has been killed in an ongoing anti-terror operation in Chanapora area of south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district, while another terrorist is believed to be holed up, police said on Wednesday. A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Zakir was trapped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24633,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631\/revisions\/24633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}