5 Terrorists Killed In Encounter In J&K, Army Stops Infiltration Attempt

Five Lashkar terrorists were killed today during a counter infiltration operation by police and army along the Line of Control or LoC at Machil in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, said police

According to Vijay Kumar, Additional Director General of J&K Police, the killed terrorists belonged to Lashkar-e-Toiba ( LeT). 

The operation is still underway.

Increasingly, the police are also being used in the counter infiltration operations, which was earlier done exclusively by the army.

A meeting of top officials of Jammu and Kashmir and security agencies was held at the headquarters of the 15 Corps in Srinagar on Wednesday.

The role of foreign terrorists in Kashmir was discussed at the meeting.

“The number of foreign terrorists has gone up again as local recruitments have gone down drastically,” said another officer.

Out of 46 terrorists killed in the Union Territory this year, 37 were Pakistanis and only nine were locals, official figures reveal. This is the first time in the 33 years of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir that the number of foreign terrorists killed is four times as high as local terrorists. 

About 130 terrorists are operating in the Valley currently, of which half are foreign terrorists, says the Ministry of Home Affairs.