SRINAGAR: The chief of al-Qaida’s Kashmir module was killed along with two of his aides in a gun battle with security forces that started in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday and stretched into Wednesday afternoon, leaving six soldiers – including a major – and two civilians injured.
Burhan Majid Koka, who had taken charge of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind after his predecessor Hameed Lone was shot dead in an encounter with security forces in October last year, was holed up with his men at Melhoora village of Zainpora, around 60km from Srinagar, when a joint team of Shopian police and the 55 Rashtriya Rifles cordoned off t
