Bullets shatter calm of years in neighbourhood of Hazratbal
(WorldNews India)

A gun battle between militants and security forces shattered years of calm at the Habak neighbourhood of Srinagar late on Thursday night. Muzaffar Raina of The Telegraph recounts: It looked like a usual evening in Habak, a quiet suburb of Srinagar that has been my home for the past decade and a half. There was some traffic on the road and a handful of people were busy with routine shopping. By 10.30pm, most people were back home and preparing to go to bed when gunshots rang out and shattered the calm. It soon became clear that we were in the midst of a deadly gunfight that lasted barely 20 minutes but left a CRPF soldier and a militant dead. Thirty minutes...