The identity of the informer will be kept strictly confidential, the police said.
Denying that the Pahalgam terror attack was an intelligence failure, former Indian Army Generals have categorically called Wednesday’s massacre a Pakistan Army-sponsored strike—an attack not only on tourists but also on local Kashmiris, who will bear the maximum brunt.
The opposition Congress on Tuesday strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, demanding that the central government convene an all-party meeting.
Officials said that the injured soldier has been hospitalised where his condition was stable.
A day after Home Minister Amit Shah ordered the implementation of “Area Domination and Zero Terror Plans”, an encounter broke out between the security forces and terrorists hiding in the Udhampur district of Jammu on Wednesday.
Security forces are said to have established contact with the hiding terrorists in the upper reaches and trapped them in the forested area.
While the BJP celebrates five years of the abrogation of Article 370, sudden revival of Pakistan sponsored terror strikes in the hitherto peaceful Jammu has become a matter of concern for the people of the region.
Over the last two months, South Kashmir has been hit by militancy; our frontline warriors from the army are engaged in fighting insurgents. Young officers and jawans have laid down their lives.
A terrorist associate was apprehended in a joint operation by the army and police in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Tuesday, police said.
The issue was taken up by the Minister with the Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi after which it was decided to retain the Army camp at Goha in view of the current operational dynamics.
