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.
“Alert troops foiled an infiltration bid by effectively engaging infiltrating terrorists with effective fire in the Battal sector at 3 am. During the exchange of heavy fire, one braveheart was injured. Operations are continuing,” the White Knight Corps said in a post on X.
The two firefights took place between 12 midnight and 2 am on Wednesday but no casualty was reported. Taking advantage of pitch dark, the terrorists managed to escape, officials said.
A day after the terrorist attack in which five army soldiers were killed in Kathua district, a fierce gunfight broke out on Tuesday between the security forces and militants in the forests of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.
The soldier lost his life in a gunfight that broke out in Modergam village of Kulgam in the morning when the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area following intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists.
The gunfight broke out in the Modergam village of Kulgam in the morning when the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area following intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists. Atleast two to three terrorists have been trapped in the area.
