JAMMU: Security forces are scouring the rugged terrain and forest of Keshwan and adjoining areas in J&K’s Kishtwar district with the assistance of helicopters, drones and military dogs in a seek-and-kill operation against three to four Pakistani terrorists responsible for killing a junior commissioned officer (JCO) Sunday and two village defence guards four days ago.On…
SRINAGAR: An offshoot of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terror outfit, called the “Kashmir Tigers,” killed two Village Defence Guard (VDG) members, Nazir Ahmed and Kuldeep Kumar, both residents of Ohli Kuntwara in Kishtwar, on Thursday morning. An encounter also erupted in Sopore, in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir, following a search operation by security forces in…
SRINAGAR: Two suspected terrorists from Pakistan were holed up in the higher reaches of the snow-clad Apharwat mountain range in J&K’s Gulmarg since early Aug, biding their time before laying last Thursday’s ambush on a military truck 5km from the LoC in which two soldiers and as many porters were killed, security officials said quoting…
JAMMU: J&K Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a module of the proscribed Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF) — a shadow outfit of Jaish-e-Mohammad — in Poonch district and solved several past grenade attacks with the arrest of two JKGF terrorists.At a press conference, ADGP (Jammu Zone) Anand Jain termed the twin arrest…
JAMMU: Bilal Ahmed Kuchay — a 27-year-old undertrial prisoner involved in the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed on Feb 14, 2019 — was shifted from Kishtwar District Jail to Jammu GMCH’s ICU early Tuesday after he developed health complications. The 27-year-old suffers from Guillain-Barré syndrome, a condition wherein the body’s…
JAMMU: A joint team of security forces intensified search operations across Jammu region Monday, especially in Kathua’s Bani and Poonch’s Pathanateer areas, to track down terrorists a day after back-to-back shootouts in J&K, less than a week before the first phase of polling for assembly elections on Sept 18. No fresh contact, however, was established,…
