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Pulwama (known as Panwangam in antiquity, [6] and later as Pulgam) [7] is a city and notified area council in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [8] It is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of the summer capital of the state, Srinagar.
The attack killed 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) [a] personnel as well as the perpetrator—Adil Ahmad Dar—who was a local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama district. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan -based Islamist terrorist [ 7 ] group, Jaish-e-Mohammed . [ 8 ]
When created, Pulwama district had 550 villages, grouped in five subdistricts : Shopian, Awantipora, Pampore, Pulwama, and Tral. [7] After Shopian district was created in 2007, Pulwama district had 331 villages and four subdistricts. [7] According to the district administration, the area of the district is 420 square miles (1,090 km 2). [2]
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The 2019 India–Pakistan military standoff was a result of [56] a militant attack in February 2019, when a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy carrying security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Panzgam is a village in Awantipora tehsil of Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Pulwama district headquarters and 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Srinagar (the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir). It is located at the boundary of Awantipora Tehsil. [1]