Bhat said the terrorists were planning to target the Army's Agniveer recruitment rally, which concluded in Pattan's Hyderbeig on Thursday.
A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Thursday.
After two men -- who were working Kashmir -- were murdered by terrorists in Shopian district, south Kashmir, the security machinery in the Valley commenced the difficult business of tracking down the killers.
Acting on a tip off, police cordoned off Alaypore village in Shopian. The militants hiding in a house opened fire at the security forces and in the ensuing firefight, two militants were killed, official sources said.
The encounters took place in Pulwama, Ganderbal and Kupwara districts of the Kashmir valley, a police official said.
Four civilians were on injured when an explosion occurred at a site where an encounter between security personnel and militants had ended on Wednesday night in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
The listed terrorists have been identified as Ashiq Hussain Ganaie of Panjran Pulwama and Imran Ahmad Bhat of Arihal Pulwama.
Major General B S Raju said a full scale cordon-and-search operation, like the one conducted in Shopian recently, will be carried out only in places where the army's operations are hampered.
The identity and group affiliation of the slain terrorists could not be ascertained as the search operation in the area was continuing when reports last came in
Two militants of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and a soldier were killed and another soldier injured in a 24-hour-long fierce gun battle in south Kashmir, official sources said on Friday.\n\n
The agency said it has found several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data during the searches.
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.
Two officers -- Lt Colonel Mukesh Jha and Major Amardeep Singh -- are among the five injured army personnel.
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.
Weapons and war-like stores were recovered from the encounter site.
Umer Khalid was a A++ category top ranking terrorist and carried a cash reward of nearly Rs 7 lakh.
In the gun battle, one terrorist identified as Sadam Hussain Mir, a resident of Chatripora Shopian, belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed, the official said.
Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an officer, were killed in a militant attack in Sangam area of Anantnag district in Jammu & Kashmir.
Eight operatives of various proscribed terror organisations were arrested Friday during multiple searches spread across six districts of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terrorism conspiracy case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.
Jammu and Kashmir has been hit by three terror attacks in three hours. Unidentified gunmen shot at a civilian in Tral in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Monday.
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The cremation is expected to take place at Besant Nagar area of Chennai on Monday with full military honours.
5 terrorists to LeT and Hizbul were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of J&K.
Aurangzeb was abducted when he was on his way home in Rajouri district for Eid celebrations.
After initial 'zero infiltration' in the wake of renewed ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan in February, fresh attempts are on to push terrorists from across the border where 250 to 300 terrorists are trained and waiting on the launch pads, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Tuesday.
Top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Saddam Padder is also believed to be among the slain terrorists.
An army official said the slain youths were "hardcore terrorists" who used a lot of ammunition and grenades against the security forces during the encounter.
The army had to had to aim at the crowd when jawans claimed to have been fired upon from the other side.
Three terrorists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag.
Two militants and a civilian were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of South Kashmir, police said on Friday.
Davinder Singh was being treated at par with the terrorists and jointly interrogated by all security agencies. He was ferrying the terrorists in a car. One of the arrested terrorists is Naveed, a former police constable who deserted the force in 2017 to join the Hizbul Mujahideen.
'There is a sustainable level of residual terrorism that will be difficult to handle as long as Pakistani support and safe havens are available.'
4 civilians were also killed and dozens of others injured in clashes that broke out between protestors and security forces following three separate encounters.
Two terrorists of the Lashkar-e Tayiba outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kawdrang area of south Kashmir Shopian district on Monday afternoon.
The martyred policemen were identified as Constable Ishfaq Ahmad Mir, Constable Javaid Ahmad Bhat, Constable Mohammad Iqbal Mir and SPO Adil Manzoor Bhat.
Death was staring them in the face as flood waters rapidly rose and there were no rescuers in sight. Relief came only after the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and teams from the National Disaster Rescue Force swung into action with the needed equipment. And with that, dimming hopes soared up, says our correspondent Mukhtar Ahmad, who himself had a narrow escape in Srinagar.
Two of the three youths killed in an encounter with security forces in the Parimpora area of Srinagar were 'radically inclined' and working as overground workers of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terror outfit, police said on Friday and added that the case was being investigated.
One of the slain terrorists has been identified as Shahbaz Safi Wani alias Rayees Kachru, who was active in the area since June, 2016.
It is estimated that around two dozen terrorists are well-entrenched within the city limits, while their movement and visibility in rural areas have become a routine.
After a year, a father's hope of finding the body of his son, Shakir Wagey, who worked with the Territorial Army and was killed by terrorists, was rekindled on Wednesday when the Army recovered a decomposed body near a mobile tower in this district of South Kashmir.
It is time we pre-empt Pakistan and the separatists by fast tracking normalcy, advises Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
