Gazi Misbah-ud-Din, the operational commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Muzaffar Ahmad alias Tajamul, divisional commander of the outfit were arrested over the past two days.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dadsara area of Tral on Wednesday night, following information about the presence of terrorists there, the official said.
Pakistan may want to undertake a 'false flag' operation in J&K to divert attention from the situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but infiltrating one SSG battalion into J&K and having two SSG battalions waiting to follow suit means war, which Pakistan cannot afford in its current economic crisis, notes Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
Najar was wanted for his alleged involvement in more than 50 killings
Ahmed was residing in Pakistan since September, 2003. He was involved in many violent attacks against civilians and security forces including an attack on a STF (special task force) camp.
A top militant commander of the terror group Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit was killed in a fierce gunfight in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Sunday.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Redbug area of Budgam on Tuesday evening.
The police attached the residential house of Sanaullah Mir at Turigam in Kulgam after obtaining legal sanction from the competent authorities (divisional commissioner, Kashmir), a spokesman said.
The 26-year-old scholar was on Monday expelled by AMU following reports that he may have joined the terror group after his photograph, showing him with an AK-47 rifle, appeared in social media.
The man, who allegedly hurled a grenade at a religious leader outside a mosque in Pulwama, was handed over to the army by locals on Saturday and he said he carried out the attack at the behest of separatist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.
One of the terrorists was a lecturer by profession who had abdicated the government service and had joined the outfit.
He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the hiding terrorists fired at the security forces.
A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Doda district, the police said on Monday.
Security forces on Wednesday arrested one of the top commanders of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen along with two other suspects from Bandipora district.
A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was killed and a policeman wounded in a gunbattle between security forces and ultras in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
Addressing the media amid tight security at the Centre Press Club in Muzaffarabad for the first time since the US declared him a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" on June 27, Salahuddin rejected the US decision and said he was a freedom fighter and not a terrorist.
The police have arrested seven persons for their alleged involvement in circulation of threatening posters on behalf of militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
In a remarkable display of resilience and commitment to democracy, the residents of villages that had long been deprived of polling due to terrorist threats and separatist-sponsored boycott calls turned out in large numbers to cast ballots in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
Laway is named in two FIRs registered at Damhal Hanjipora Police Station. He is accused of instigating a mob on July 9, 2016 -- a day after Hizbul Mujahideen militant commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter -- to cause damage and destruction to government property, the officials said.
Junaid-ul-Islam, a top leader of the Hizbul Mujahideen, has been arrested in Brarmulla district of north Kashmir, the police said on Thursday. Islam is the chief spokesman and top militant commander of the outfit in the state, said police sources.
On specific information, police and the 10 Rashtriya Rifle troops launched an operation in Ghatt area of Doda district. A gun battle took place between hiding militants and security forces, Senior Superintendent of Police, Doda, Manohar Singh said.
Hizbul Mujahedeen, a militant group active in Kashmir, owned the $1 million mansion in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by United States forces, a Canadian newspaper has reported, claiming that Pakistan is trying to hush up the issue of ownership.
He was arrested while he was demonstrating against the Kashmir policy of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Security forces gunned down two local militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Tuesday evening.
In a first, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday registered a money laundering case against ten people, including chief of banned militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen Syed Salahuddin, for alleged cross-border funding of terror activities in the country.
Tailing pro-Pakistani separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani helped the Jammu and Kashmir police in nabbing dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen militant Abdul Aziz Dar alias General Moosa from Srinagar on Saturday.Dar, popularly known as General Moosa among separatists, had been on the run since last year, after he was found actively involved in anti-national agitations. He later allegedly indulged in liaising between Geelani and the Hizbul Mujahideen.
An armyman lost his life in the encounter, while another soldier was injured.
On a tip-off, army and police launched a joint cordon and search operation in Larad area of Mahore tehsil, 107 km from Udhampur, on Monday morning
Forty-year-old Shama Begum and her 17-year-old daughter Parveen were taken into custody after were caught talking over wireless with a Hizbul commander.
The police officer said the main aim of the module was to target security forces during the elections and they had even made a failed attempt in Bijbehara area of Anantnag on March 19.
Three Hizbul Mujahideen Over-Ground Workers have been arrested for their involvement in a grenade attack in Kupwara district of Kashmir in November 2011, the police said on Tuesday.
Bullet-riddled body of a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was found in a jungle on Saturday in north Kashmir, with police suspecting the hand of break-away Hizb faction Lashkar-e-Islam.
'Whether she is in power or not, she always makes it a point to visit us. This is her best quality as a leader.'
Preliminary inquiries have indicated that the suspected Hizbul Mujahideen activist arrested from Kumali in Kerala's Idukki district had terrorist links, according to state Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
A top commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was on Saturday gunned down in the ongoing encounter between security forces and militants in the Budhal area of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources in Jammu said.
One of the slain terrorists was pursuing Bachelor of Physiotherapy.
A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Thursday.
Samir Ahmad Wani alias Jaan Sahib was killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Nagri Hatmulla in Kupwara district, a police official said.
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