A police officer said that a massive cordon and search operation was launched in the forests of Kellar after specific inputs about the presence of some terrorists.
The JCO Subedar Major Pawan Kumar, belonging to the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, was killed in Pakistani shelling in the Poonch district.
A soldier and a civilian were also killed on Friday evening taking the civilian death toll to 19 in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch since Wednesday when the cross-border shelling by Pakistan intensified.
Several prominent Baloch leaders and writers, including Mir Yar Baloch, have slammed Pakistan for operating terror factories and unleashing mayhem on neighbouring countries, especially India.
The Indian Army said that the drones were effectively being engaged.
There have been some misleading foreign media reports about a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly, sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday, adding that it is an annual resolution tabled by Pakistan in the Third Committee.
The court's directions have come on a public interest litigation (PIL) on the slow pace of eviction of the former deputy CM and BJP leader, Kavinder Gupta from the ministerial bungalow.
The soldier identified as Delhair Mushtaq suffered injuries and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Sources identified these women as Maryama Begum and Arshad Begum, both residents of Basantgarh area.
One terrorist was killed on Tuesday in an ongoing gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district.
