Averting a major threat ahead of the annual Amarnath Yatra, security forces killed five heavily armed foreign terrorists belonging to an outfit commanded by an Afghan war veteran along the Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, June 16. It was the biggest infiltration bid to have been foiled since 2021, when India and Pakistan effected a ceasefire understanding, officials said.
The operation in the Jumagund area in the Keran sector was launched Thursday night based on intelligence input gathered by the Jammu and Kashmir police.
Srinagar-based defence PRO Col Emron Musavi said the terror groups in Pakistan are using the “facade” of ceasefire to perpetrate terror in the Union territory.
Additional director general of police of Kashmir Vijay Kumar said the slain terrorists were affiliated to the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force, which has Rafiq Nai and Shamsher Nai alias Zafar Iqbal — both residents of Poonch but presently settled in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, as handlers. The JKGF has Murtaza Pathan alias Ghaznvi, a resident of Faislabad in Pakistan “who is an Afghan (war) veteran affiliated with Deoband School of thought, as operational commander supervising tactical aspect from POJK”, Kumar said. Briefing the media in Srinagar, the general officer commanding of the army’s 28 Division, Major General Girish Kalia, said that based on the input, multiple ambushes were set up along the expected routes of infiltration.
Source: PTI