{"id":6427,"date":"2026-05-22T02:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:56:35","slug":"alleged-pulwama-attack-mastermind-hamza-burhan-shot-dead-in-muzafarabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/alleged-pulwama-attack-mastermind-hamza-burhan-shot-dead-in-muzafarabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Pulwama Attack Mastermind Hamza Burhan Shot Dead in Muzafarabad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(<strong><em>NQ News Desk<\/em><\/strong>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamza Burhan, also known as Arjumand Gulzar Dar alias Doctor, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan occupied Kashmir on Tuesday. He was believed to be one of the key conspirators behind the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burhan, a commander of the Al Badr militant outfit, had been designated a terrorist by India in April 2022 for his alleged role in multiple terror related activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Reports said he had been living in hiding in PoK and was working as a teacher after the Pulwama attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, Burhan, who was serving as principal of a private college in Gojra area of Muzaffarabad, was attacked outside the institution when he stepped out on Tuesday morning. Assailants reportedly fired several rounds at close range, leaving him critically injured with three bullet wounds to the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was shifted to a nearby hospital and placed on ventilator support, where he later succumbed to his injuries. Police said a suspect has been arrested and the weapon used in the attack was recovered. Eyewitnesses claimed the accused tried to flee on a motorcycle but was caught by locals and handed over to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NQ News Desk) Hamza Burhan, also known as Arjumand Gulzar Dar alias Doctor, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan occupied Kashmir on Tuesday. He was believed to be one of the key conspirators behind the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Burhan, a commander of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}