{"id":27835,"date":"2025-03-20T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=27835"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:13:43","slug":"former-mla-and-bjp-leader-shoots-himself-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/former-mla-and-bjp-leader-shoots-himself-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLA And BJP Leader Shoots Himself Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Mar 20: BJP leader and former Independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Gurez Faqir Mohammad Khan on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself, party officials said.Khan, 62, shot himself inside the Tulsibagh government quarters here, they said.<br \/>\nBJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur, while confirming the incident, said the former MLA has died due to suicide.<br \/>\nIt was not immediately known as to why Khan took the extreme step.<br \/>\nKhan, who was elected to Jammu and Kashmir assembly in 1996 as an Independent candidate, had joined BJP in 2020 and unsuccessfully contested the assembly polls on the party ticket last year.<br \/>\nFurther details are awaited.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27836\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27836\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-300x178.jpg\" alt=\" Former MLA And BJP Leader Shoots Himself Dead\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-549x326.jpg 549w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-470x280.jpg 470w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-233x138.jpg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-230x137.jpg 230w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-360x214.jpg 360w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir-100x59.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faqir.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former MLA And BJP Leader Shoots Himself Dead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Mar 20: BJP leader and former Independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Gurez Faqir Mohammad Khan on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself, party officials said.Khan, 62, shot himself inside the Tulsibagh government quarters here, they said. BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur, while confirming the incident, said the former MLA has died due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-header","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-national"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former MLA And BJP Leader Shoots Himself Dead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BJP leader and former Independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Gurez Faqir Mohammad Khan 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