A local militant was killed on Saturday in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district, about 35 kms from Srinagar, police said.
Tourism is badly affected. Entire apple orchards have been washed away. 2 million people are threatened with loss of livelihood.
Thinning out of the counter infiltration and counter terrorism grid is fraught with the danger of revival of terrorism in the Poonch-Rajouri area, cautions Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd), the counter-insurgency expert.
He said the identity and group affiliation of the slain ultras is being ascertained.
The terrorists made an abortive bid during the night to infiltrate into the Indian side of the LoC in Machil sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, they added. The infiltrators were challenged and three of them were killed, the officials said.
Terrorists struck for the second time at the same site within 14 hours in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri, leaving a minor sister-brother duo dead and six others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion on Monday.
The encounter started when security forces launched a joint operation in Posta-Potra village in Gundana area, 26 km from Doda town, following information about presence of some terrorists, the officials said.
In a major breakthrough, security forces on Thursday gunned down 5 hardcore militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen in a fierce gunbattle in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
An army soldier was also injured in the encounter.
The terrorists, however, managed to escape after the gunbattle and security forces were making efforts to track them down.
Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Arms and ammunition and other incriminating material were recovered from the site of the encounter.
One of the most wanted terrorist, Mudasir Pandit, and a Pakistani ultra were among the three terrorist killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in the Sopore area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said.
Munna Lahori, a Pakistani national, was also responsible for a series of civilian killings in Kashmir, a police official said.
The team of 21 Rashtriya Rifles had entered the house of a civilian to prevent a hostage situation when they came under attack from the terrorists who had already reached there. While the four army personnel and the police Sub Inspector lost their lives in the encounter, the civilians trapped in the house were safely evacuated.
Three more bodies were recovered on Saturday from debris of the houses that collapsed in landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Acting on a credible input about the presence of terrorists in Bijbehara area of the south Kashmir district, security forces launched a cordon and search operation on Tuesday morning.
The Republic Day parade, which will begin at around 1030 am, will be a unique mix of the country's military prowess and cultural diversity, depicting the country's growing indigenous capabilities, Nari Shakti and emergence of a 'New India'.
This is the second encounter in the district in as many days.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Samboora village of Pampore area following information about the presence of some terrorists there.
With the threat of disease outbreak lurking in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, efforts have been initiated on a war-footing to provide medical staff and medicines even as rescue operations were slightly hampered on Sunday due to return of rains in the Valley.
Two terrorists including a wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba ultra Salim Parray were killed in two encounters with security forces in Harwan area on the outskirts of the city on Monday, police said.
According to the order, Singh was awarded Jammu and Kashmir's highest police award in 2018.
'He continued firing with the other hand with the AK-47.' 'He was hit in the neck and shoulder, but did not let go of the terrorist.' On Republic Day, Mudasir Ahmed Sheikh of the J&K Police was awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously for eliminating three Pakistani terrorists.
Bodies of five of the deceased have been recovered so far, while efforts are on to find the remaining five persons, whose chances of survival are bleak, a police official said in Srinagar.
The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Pinjora area of the district in South Kashmir this morning after receiving information about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.
The jawan is the third army personnel to die in Pakistani firing and shelling on forward posts and villages in the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri this month.
The body of the army jawan was recovered during the clearance operation at the camp on Monday night.
During the search, five weapons have been recovered.
'His (the Pakistani terrorist's) aim was to enter the mosque, engage with the security forces, stir religious sentiments of the people and create a law and order problem. But we will not let them to succeed in that.'
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The slain intruders are believed to be members of a Border Action Team comprising Pakistan army jawans and trained terrorists, an army officer said on condition of anonymity.
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by firing mortar shells and small arms along the LoC in Poonch around 8 am on Monday.
The joint search operation was launched by Quick Reaction Team of the Army and Special Operation Group of police.
Two soldiers were also injured in the encounter.
A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed and another critically injured in a militant attack at Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon.
2 other jawans were injured in Pakistani shelling in Naushera sector of Rajouri district.
The gunfight is over and the area is being sanitised, the official said.
A youth died in clashes between stone-pelters and security personnel near the encounter site.
Aurangzeb was abducted and later killed by terrorists in Pulwama in June last year while he was on his way to home in Poonch for celebrating Eid.
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