Riyaz Naikoo

Encounter site at Beighpora, Awantipora, Pulwama where Hizb Chief Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed on May 6, 2020 (Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

Naikoo was hiding between ‘false walls’, police had captured person who’d built hideout

Srinagar: The hideout of Hizb operational commander Riyaz Naikoo was constructed between two “false walls” in a house and police had captured the person who had built it, a top police officer
Encounter site at Beighpora, Awantipora, Pulwama where Hizb Chief Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed on May 6, 2020 (Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)
4 years ago

Naikoo, three other militants buried away in Sonamarg: Report

Srinagar: The bodies of Hizb militant commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide who were killed in an encounter in Pulwama on Thursday were not handed over to the families and instead buried
In this photo clicked on July 30 2017, Hizb militant commander Riyaz Naikoo is seen addressing a gathering during the funeral of militant Shariq Ahmad in Pulwama. Naikoo was killed in Beighpora area of Awantipora on Wednesday, May 06, 2020. (File Photo KM/Umar Ganie)
4 years ago

Voice calls suspended too, curbs to be imposed: IGP Kashmir

Srinagar:  Amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, authorities in Kashmir have suspended voice calls too on all mobile networks except government-run BSNL following the killing of militant commander Riyaz Naikoo during an encounter
In this photo clicked on July 30 2017, Hizb militant commander Riyaz Naikoo is seen addressing a gathering during the funeral of militant Shariq Ahmad in Pulwama. Naikoo was killed in Beighpora area of Awantipora on Wednesday, May 06, 2020. (File Photo KM/Umar Ganie)

Hizb Chief Riyaz Naikoo, aide killed in Awantipora gunbattle

Srinagar: Security forces dealt a major blow to Hizbul Mujahedeen on Wednesday when they killed its chief operations commander Riyaz Ahmad Naikoo in an encounter at Beighpora, Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Naikoo,