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Hizb threatens attacks on civil administration in J&K

Pakistan-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has threatened to "target" the Jammu and Kashmir administration in a "big way" besides intensifying attacks on security forces in the wake of killing of nine persons including an activist of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party in the last five days.

"If growing incidents of custodial killings, uncalled for arrests and atrocities are not stopped immediately, the Hizb will intensify attacks not only against security forces but also against the state administration in a big way," a statement circulated through local newspapers said in Srinagar Monday.

The recent killings evoked widespread protests, with locals accusing security agencies of killing these persons in "fake encounters" after their arrests, even as police claimed that seven of the deceased including the JKDFP activist were militants and killed in encounters.

Meanwhile, JKDFP president Shabir Ahmad Shah, condemned the killing of his party activist Aijaz Ahmad Ketab in Srinagar on Sunday, saying he was arrested near the party office at Rajbagh and was later killed in a "fake encounter".

Shah said he would take up Ketab's killing with the Centre adding that custodial killings have registered an increase during the past few days which do not go well with the offer of peace talks.

Police claimed that Ketab was a militant of Harkat-ul- Mujahideen and was killed in an encounter.

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