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.
Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Kwarigam following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid tribute to victims of 2001 Parliament attack.
Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists have been arrested by the security forces from Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir with a large cache of arms and ammunition they had received through drones, officials said on Saturday.
A New York man, who had planned to join Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and carry out acts of terrorism, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and a lifetime term of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the terror outfit.
Director-General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Dilbag Singh on Monday said 27 terrorists have been killed by security forces in the past 17 days, causing frustration among militants who are now targeting innocent people.
Security forces including intelligence, army, police averted a major Pulwama-like terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Ayengund area of Rajpora, Pulwama after forces neutralised an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) recovered from a car. According to sources, the terrorists were planning to target a convoy of 20-25 vehicles that was to carry close to 400 soldiers, commanders and army officers.
In another anti-terror operation, Budgam Police and Army's 53RR in a joint operation arrested a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror associate Wasim Ganie of Beerwah along with three other Over-Ground Workers (OGWs) during cordon and search operations.
Pakistan has launched new terror outfits staffed by cadres of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed under "local names" to mislead the world that it has nothing to do with the terrorism prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) of the union territory Dilbag Singh said.
An intelligence report claims Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has joined hands with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in an attempt to repeat an attack similar to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Dawood Ibrahim was spotted in Islamabad at his farmhouse on Sunday, the news report said quoting top intelligence sources
A 21-year-old woman has been arrested in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district for her alleged links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a senior police officer said on Friday.
Four terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were apprehended by a joint team of the police and the army at Hajin area of Bandipore district in north Kashmir, the police said on Saturday.
Five terror suspects were arrested by a joint team of the police and security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district on Saturday.
As per the police records, Talha was operating as a commander of the LeT in the areas of Bandipora and wanted by law for his involvement in terror crimes and civilian atrocities, the officer said.
The official said Javed was arrested on Sunday from New Delhi for his role in funding a LeT operative named Sheikh Abdul Nayeem aka Sohel Khan, who was arrested and chargesheeted by the agency for criminal conspiracy to carry out subversive activities in India along with his associates.
US District Judge Reed O’Connor sentenced Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, who was arrested in February and pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in May.
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday arrested 8 terrorists belonging to terror outfit Lashkar-E-Taiba from Sopore District. Reports suggest that these terrorists were working as overground worjers of LeT. They were reportedly threatening local traders against opening their shops in the aftermath of nullification of Article 370.
Two Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were arrested in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, with the Army claiming to have scuttled a conspiracy of the terror outfit to expand its arc of terrorism in the Jammu region.
The LeT along with Jaish-e-Mohommad are the two principals in the proxy war against India, both have skin the terror game and in many ways are the mirror image of ISI C Wing which runs, controls and minds the military-jihad complex in Pakistan.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist has been arrested from a hospital here, police said Wednesday. He is the prime suspect in the looting of weapons from the residence of a Jammu and Kashmir legislator last year.
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