Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Tuesday said that Police and security forces are chasing the remaining terrorists, as we are committed to root out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir.
The security forces killed three terrorists in an operation in the Khyber district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported Dawn citing the military’s media affairs wing.
A security forces personnel was killed in a fire exchange with terrorists in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Geo News reported.
A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has informed the United Nations that extremist and radical groups in the region are often overlooked by security forces, even being facilitated into becoming political parties and register in the local election commission.
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorist, who remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent civilians, it added.
A search operation in the forest area of Kokernag is underway as the encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district enters the seventh day on Tuesday, according to the officials.
As Anantnag encounter against Pakistan-backed terrorists enters day 6 in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Shabir Choudhary, a PoK activist, living in exile in London disclosed that he had a foreboding that Pakistani terrorists could launch an attack on security forces in Kashmir.
A search operation is underway in the forest area of Kokernag in Anantnag district where an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on September 13.
Amid the ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said the deaths of soldiers, including two senior officers, will be avenged.
Pakistan security forces killed the former group commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Swat in an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, The Express Tribune reported.