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A heavily armed Pakistani terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday in Akhnoor Sector near the International Boundary.
According to an official statement, warlike stores including five pistols, ten pistol magazines, 60 bullets of pistol, one AK assault Rifle, two AK Rifle magazine with 234 rounds of ammunition, fifteen hand grenades and twelve fuzes for IEDs were recovered from the eliminated Pakistani terrorist.
The entire area has been cordoned off and search and destroy operation was underway when the last reports came in.
“In an encounter a heavily armed Pakistani terrorist has been eliminated in Akhnoor Sector on own side of the International Boundary, at about 1350 hours on 13 Nov 18,” the statement said.
“ This huge cache has scuttled the nefarious plans of the terrorists outfit to derail the peace and harmony in the region and disrupt the forthcoming Panchayat Elections in the state. The timely intercept of the intrusion of the terrorists with the cache of arms, ammunition and other war like stores has thwarted any possible untoward incident, planned by the terrorist during the scheduled elections in the state,” it added.
The statement further said that Indian Army is carrying out relentless and robust anti-infiltration operations in the state to break the backbone of terrorism and nip the designs of anti national elements and the enemy to foment trouble South of the Pir Panjal ranges in Jammu & Kashmir.
