Indian Army says retired Pakistan soldiers among terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir

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J-K encounter: Top LeT commander among two terrorists killed | Top points Further asked if Pakistan intends to push more terrorists in the coming months to disrupt upcoming elections, including the Lok Sabha polls, he answered in the affirmative without going into details. Dwivedi made this statement yesterday after he visited the Kalakote area of the Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir and reviewed the operational situation in the region.

Rajouri encounter: LeT terrorist, trained on Pakistan and Afghan fronts, killed On Thursday two foreign terrorists of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit were eliminated in a 36-hours-long gunfight with security forces in the Bajimaal area of Rajouri's Darmsal. Commander of 14 Sector Rashtriya Rifles Brigadier Soumeet Patnaik informed that security forces safely evacuated trapped civilians, including women and children.

Terrorist killed in encounter with joint team of security force in J&K's Rajouri During the gunfight, five army personnel - Capt M V Pranjal, Capt Shubham Gupta, Hav Abdul Majid, Lance Naik Sanjay Bisht, and Paratrooper Sachin Laur – laid down their lives. The Indian Army located the hideout in the forests of Rajouri district that was being used by terrorists to carry out their operations in the recent Rajouri encounter in which five army personnel lost their lives.

Sharing pictures of the "small cave," the army officials said that such hideouts were "relatively difficuLt to detect and breach." The mortal remains of the personnel were brought to the Army General Hospital in Jammu from Rajouri where a wreath-laying ceremony was organised. The coffins were airlifted to their native places from Jammu for their last rites.