Sheikh, a resident of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, was on the radar of central intelligence agencies for quite sometime before he was nabbed with the help of Uttar Pradesh police in the last week of November.
Two separate gunfights erupted this morning between security forces and militants in Kulgam and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Army has said that around 80 militants have been killed in south Kashmir in the past six months and around 115 ultras are still active in the region, of whom over a dozen were foreign terrorists.
Two civilians were killed after militants on Thursday attacked a police patrol party, part of the cavalcade of Jammu and Kashmir's senior minister Naeem Akhtar, near the bust stand in the Tral area of Pulwama district
The terrorists entered Pulwama town's district police lines at around 3.40 a.m. and attacked a guard-post with grenades and gunfire.
Earlier this month, reports had emerged that Ayub was trapped with his men during an encounter in a village of Pulwama district but managed to escape from the site.
Three terrorists were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
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