Pakistani terrorist amongst two ultras killed in encounter in J&K’s Kulgam

By PTI

SRINAGAR: A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist from Pakistan was amongst two ultras killed in an encounter with safety forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police stated.

Acting on a selected data concerning the presence of terrorists within the Cheyan Devsar space of Kulgam in south Kashmir, safety forces launched a cordon-and-search operation there, a police spokesman stated.

As the safety forces personnel approached the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon them. The safety personnel successfully retaliated resulting in a gunfight, he stated.

“In the ensuing encounter, two terrorists of the proscribed terror outfit LeT, including Pakistani terrorist commander Haider, was killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site. The other killed terrorist has been identified as Shahbaz Shah of Kulgam,” the spokesman stated.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Kashmir Vijay Kumar known as the operation a giant success and congratulated the joint staff for eliminating the needed Pakistani terrorist, Haider.

Incriminating supplies and arms and ammunition, together with an AK-56 rifle with 4 magazines, a pistol with {a magazine} and one UBGL, had been recovered from the location of the encounter, the spokesman stated.

According to police information, Haider was a categorised terrorist who was energetic for greater than two years in north Kashmir and had lately shifted his base to south Kashmir, he stated.

“The killed terrorist was a part of teams concerned in a number of terror crimes, civilian atrocities and varied killings, together with latest killings of police personnel Mohammad Sultan and Fayaz Ahmad in November final 12 months at Gulshan Chowk Bandipora.

“He was also involved in an attack on a naka party near Nishat Park Bandipora in February this year in which SPO Zubair Ahmad attained martyrdom while four other security personnel were injured,” he stated.

Shah was a “hybrid terrorist” and was concerned within the killing of Satish Kumar Singh, a civilian belonging to minority neighborhood, on April 13 in Kakran of Kulgam. “After this attack, the said terrorist was categorised,” the spokesman stated.