January 2Police arrested a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militant, identified as Towheed Ahmad Mir, who was wanted by Police for killing of a former militant, Bashir Ahmad and his three year old son Burhan Ahmad in September 2015, from Sopore area in Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir.
January 4 Protesters pelted stones on Security Forces (SFs), which left 7 of them, injured in Srinagar District, during clashes that triggered when the Shias’ Protested against the execution of top Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr-al-Nimr by Saudi Government.
January 11 A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander was killed during an encounter with the SFs in the outskirts of Srinagar. Police and SFs received information about presence of Sajjad Ahmad Bhat alias Peer in Gossu village of Zakura in the outskirts of Srinagar. Sajjad Ahmad was one of the main architects of setting up of LeT bases in South Kashmir since 2007.
January 12 At least 6 persons including 2 Policemen were injured during clashes in the outskirts of Srinagar in Pantha Chowk area, as Police fired scores of tear smoke shells to disperse the protesters who had blocked the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway over the killing of top LeT commander Sajjad Ahmad Bhat.
January 27 The central government cabinet approved five new battalions of Indian Reserve Police (IRP) for J&K, which would be raised over a period of one and half years to two years with preferential treatment to the youths of border areas. The cabinet cleared a proposal to raise a total of 17 new IRP battalions including five for J&K.
January 30 Two LeT militants were killed during an encounter in North Kashmir’s Lolab area in Kupwara District. The militants have been identified as Abu Mushtaq Hyder and Abu Rashid Suliaman Qadri.
February 8 The Police detained Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and other senior leaders in Srinagar, to deal with the shutdown called by the separatists to mark the death anniversaries of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat on February 9 and 11.
February 13 Five militants of LeT including their commander and two Army personnel, were killed and two Army personnel including an officer were injured during a fierce encounter in Chowkibal forest area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara District.
February 14 Two civilians including a woman and one LeT militant were killed and over three dozen others were injured during an encounter and clashes that broke out in Kakpora village in Pulwama District of J&K. Protests erupted during the gun battle in which two persons Danish Farooq Mir son of Farooq Ahmad Mir of Ratnipora, Pulwama, and the woman as Shaista Hameed daughter of Abdul Hameed of Lelhar village were killed.
March 7Stone-throwing clashes erupted amid shutdown in Kulgam town of South Kashmir in Kulgam District, against the killing of a local HM militant commander, Sheikh Dawood, in an encounter with SFs in the District on March 6.
March 9SFs killed Abu Ukasha, a top commander of the LeT, and his associate, Abu Hafiz, in an encounter at Wadhakpora in Awantipora area in Pulwama District.
April 12Three persons were killed and 6 others were injured as Army reportedly opened firing on protesters in Handwara town of Kupwara District.
April 15A youth was killed and three others injured as SFs opened firing in Kupwara District of North Kashmir, to disperse protesters who were pelting stones on an Army camp during a protest demonstration.
May 21Five militants of JeM, including their commander, were killed in a fierce gun battle in Drugmulla village in Kupwara District, while two Army personnel were injured.
May 23 Three policemen including one ASI of Police were killed by the militants in Srinagar city.
June 3 Three BSF personnel were killed and seven others critically injured when militants ambushed their convoy near Bijbehara on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Anantnag District.
June 4 Militants killed two Policemen, including an officer, in poll-bound Anantnag town in Anantnag District. The attack comes ahead of the June 22 polling for by-election to Anantnag Assembly seat where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is one of the nine candidates in the fray.
June 25Eight paramilitary Indian Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed and 20 others injured when militants attacked their convoy at Frestbal near Pampore in Srinagar on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.