One pistol, one magazine, eight pistol rounds and three hand grenades were recovered from Shakir Ahmad Lone. The accused also revealed that he was in touch with a Pakistan-based terror handler and was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Baramulla town.
Two of the arrested terror associates are of the proscribed outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) while the third one was working as a terrorist associate of the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Other groups include the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jamaat Ansarullah, and the LeT, with each numbering in the few hundreds.
TRF or The Resistance Front is an offshoot of the LeT. He said a case has been registered and an investigation was underway.
According to police, a top terrorist commander along with an associate was trapped in a house in Warpora village where the police and security forces were engaged in the encounter.
A militant was killed in an encounter in Shopian, while two ultras -- including LeT commander Naseer-u-din Lone, who was involved in the killing of six CRPF personnel earlier this year -- were killed in a gunfight in Kupwara, police said.
Details coming out from the site of encounter in Handwara, Pulwama district, suggest that the security forces didn’t go for the kill on the first instance just because they wanted to shield the locals, who were being employed as ‘human shields’ by the terrorists holed up in the spot
The banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) newly formed The Resistance Front (TRF), were quibbling over the credit for perpetrating the terror attack in Kashmir's Handwara town.
Pakistan submitted a report comprising answers to 22 questions to the FATF, Geo News quoted officials as saying. The report details Pakistan's actions against the groups the United Nations has listed as terrorist organisations as well as sentences handed to them by the courts.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a man accused of raising funds for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) through Hawala channels to sponsor terrorist activities in the country
A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh was arrested in a joint operation in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Wednesday, police said.
The development comes almost a week after he announced on Facebook that he is joining militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Chicago, May 25 : International pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks led Lashkar-e-Taiba to abandon its plan to attack a Danish newspaper in retaliation to the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed,
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