Srinagar, July 23 -- In the first terror attack targeting police personnel in the Kashmir Valley this year, a lone terrorist, believed to be a Pakistani, shot dead a policeman on Amarnath Yatra security duty in Kashmir's Anantnag town on Wednesday.
The attack on Head Constable Ashiq Hussain Qureshi occurred around 12:30 pm at Lal Chowk in Anantnag.
The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the targeted attack in a social media post shortly after the incident, officials said.
Qureshi, a resident of Beerwah in Budgam, was posted in the Jammu and Kashmir Police's IRP 3rd Battalion. He was critically injured and rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital in Anant...