SOPORE FIRING: MAN KILLED, WIFE INJURED
SRINAGAR : A man was killed and his wife was critically injured in a firing by suspected militants in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Friday evening.
Police said militants fired upon Mohammad Ashraf Mir, 35, at Harwan area of Sopore in Baramulla district. “Both Mir and his wife were critically injured in the incident,” police said. Mir later succumbed to his injuries.
A police party rushed to the spot to collect further details.
Sopore superintendent of police (SP) Javaid Iqbal said militants barged into Mir’s home and opened fire. “He was hit by five bullets and died before reaching the hospital in Sopore. His wife has injuries in both her legs and has been referred to Srinagar,” he said.
The motive of killing him is not clear yet, he said.
SP said that the man used to work as a driver and had a business of fruits.
He said they suspect the involvement of Lashkar-etaiba militants including some foreigners.
Few hours earlier, suspected militants lobbed a grenade which exploded outside a police station in Pulwama, south Kashmir. However, no casualty was reported. Some aerial shots were fired by a policeman guarding the police station after the explosion.
The killing comes four days after bullet riddled dead bodies of three youth were found in Baramulla old town. Police had suspected militants of Lashkare-taiba behind the act. However, separatists had condemned the killing of the three civilians on Monday night and said any killings on the grounds of political or party affiliations was inhuman. DHARAMSHALA: Stressing on the need to transform India from a “sports loving nation to sports playing nation”, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said sports should be introduced as a subject from juniorlevel.
“I feel sports should be introduced as a subject right from kindergarten. That’s my dream,” said the 45-year-old Bharat Ratna Awardee while launching Khel Mahakumbh at International Cricket Stadium in Dharamshala.
The Khel Mahakumbh, a rural sports initiative by Lok Sabha MP and former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief Anurag thakur aims to take sports to villages in Himachal.
Congratulating the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for introducing sports as a mandatory subject from Class-9 onwards, Sachin said sports changes one’s life style and make healthier.
‘PROMOTE WOMEN IN SPORTS’
“Women are the backbone of the family, they should also be promoted in sports,” said the former Indian player stating that it is mindset of the Indian society that boys get preference when it comes to sports.
Exhorting the young sportspersons to become good players as well as good human being, Sachin told them work hard and avoid shortcuts.
Anurag Thakur said Khel Mahakumbh is an initiative to take sports to village, school and college and provide the young players to exhibit their talent in six disciplines, such as cricket, kabaddi, football, volleyball, athletics and basketball.
“About one lakh players from 5,000 villages of 800 panchayats will participate in the Khel Mahakumb. Best players among them will be selected and ₹1 crore will be spent on their training in the next five years,” he said.
The cricket administratorturned-parliamentarian said suggestions given by Sachin in the Parliament to promote sports were being implemented and Khel Mahakumbh was on the lines of those recommendation.