Terror attack at Handwara Kashmir

Active in Kashmir since 2015, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) chief, identified as Haider, was the fundamental face of terror in the Valley recruiting and persuading youth to join terror positions. He was a POK based resident. 

Terror attack at Handwara Kashmir

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Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) chief, identified as Haider, was among two terrorists killed in an encounter that ensued in Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara locale late Saturday.

 Terror attack at Handwara Kashmir. The Identity of the second Lashkar operative is yet to be ascertained.

Inspector General in Jammu Kashmir Police, Vijay Kumar, disclosed to India Today TV, "The chief commander of Lashkar in Valley, identified as Haider, has been killed in Handwara encounter. We had inputs that he was in Handwara to receive a fresh cluster of infiltrators, however, was eliminated."

Active in Kashmir since 2015, Haider was the principal face of terror in the Valley recruiting and inspiring youth to join terror positions. He was a POK based resident.

 However, a senior police official rendered the case as false.

Up until now, the TRF is being considered the shadow outfit of Lashkar-e-Taiba

Five security personnel were martyred in nearly an eight-hour intense weapon battle. A Colonel, one significant, two Army jawans and a police sub-inspector were among those killed in this encounter with aggressors.

Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, the CO 21 Rashtriya Riffles (RR) who was martyred in the encounter, had earlier advised his colleagues that he aimed to execute Haider and he achieved his point, making the supreme sacrifice for the nation.

THE OPERATION 

As per preliminary sources of info, a joint operation was launched by the J&K Police and the Indian Army after receiving intel that regular citizens were being held hostage inside a home in Changimulla, Handwara.

A team containing five security personnel entered the target area occupied by aggressors. They successfully managed to extricate the regular citizens. However, the team came under heavy fire by aggressors in the process.

This comes when Pakistan is professing to take activity against banned aggressor associations on its dirt to abstain from being blacklisted by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international guard dog. It currently remains in the dim rundown.

Pakistan has discreetly removed the names of around 4,000 terrorists from its watch-list, including that of one of the significant planners of the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults.

Indian forces have so far killed 64 terror operatives, of which nearly 50 are neighborhood and 14 have been foreign terrorists.

With most the governments focused on the novel coronavirus pandemic, terrorist gatherings could see "a fateful opening to strike", with the circumstance in a specific concern, measure discussed in the United Nations (UN).

"The weaknesses and absence of preparedness exposed by this pandemic provide a window onto how a bioterrorist assault may unfurl - and may increase its dangers. Non-state gatherings could access virulent strains that could pose comparative devastation to societies around the world." the UN chief had said recently