3 heavily armed Pakistani terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Kashmir

Three heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists were killed in ‘Operation Mahadev’, jointly launched by the Chinar Corps of the Indian Army, J&K Police, and CRPF in the Harwan area on the outskirts of Srinagar on Monday.

The Indian Army confirmed that three terrorists were killed in the encounter.

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“Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight. Operation Continues,” the Chinar Corps of the Indian Army wrote on X.

Contact with these terrorists was established in the morning in the Lidwas area of Srinagar’s Upper reaches in Harwan of Zabarwan mountains, security forces said.

The security forces, acting on an intelligence input, launched an anti-terror operation in the Harwan area. Soon, reinforcements were rushed to the area, and the combing operations were intensified to track down the terrorists. After a brief gun battle, the security forces personnel managed to trap the terrorists and neutralise them.

The process of identifying bodies of the neutralised terrorists was on, but unofficial reports claim that two of these terrorists were involved in the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack on 22 April, in which 26 people were killed after ascertaining their religion.

Suleiman Shah, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, was identified as the mastermind of the April 22 terror attack that shook the nation.

Suleiman reportedly served in the Pakistan Army and was also known as Hashim Moosa. In the aftermath of the terror attack at Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley, the Jammu and Kashmir Police announced a Rs 20 lakh reward for providing credible information about Suleiman.

Security forces had launched a massive operation to track down the perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack. Intelligence inputs over the past month had indicated that the terrorists might have moved towards the Dachigam area, which is nearly 20 km from Srinagar.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that “From the day of the Pahalgam attack, whether it is the police, paramilitary forces, or the Army, they are after those terrorists. If even one of them is killed in an encounter today, it will be a good thing”.

On the discussion on Operation Sindoor in Parliament, he said, “Discussion on Operation Sindoor is fine, but before that, it is necessary to discuss Pahalgam. Recently, LG Sahab said that there was definitely negligence in this. Intelligence and security failure played a role in this, so that should also be discussed in Parliament, that after all, if there was an intelligence failure, a security failure, then who was held responsible for it”.