Jammu’s Pir Panchal region, which includes Poonch and Rajouri districts, has witnessed some major attacks on security forces and civilians during the last few months
Some labourers found the unexploded mortar shell while digging at Ajote village in J&K s Poonch district and informed the police. It landed in the village during cross-border shelling by Pakistan some years ago.
Army officers said Tabarak Hussain, 32, had confessed to being sent by a Pakistani colonel from an intelligence agency to carry out a suicide attack on an Indian army post
Five Indian troops were killed on Monday near the Line of Control or LoC in an ambush by Kashmiri militants, an Indian military spokesman said. A junior commissioned officer or JCO and four soldiers were killed during a “search operation probably by infiltrators … The operation is ongoing,” Lieutenant-Colonel Devinder Anand said. Two militants were also killed in the ensuing gun battle, he said. Police and soldiers cordoned off a forested area in the southern Surankote area after an intelligence report indicated the presence of militants over there, Lt-Col Devender said. He said that the incident occurred near a mountain pass, adding that police and army presence had been reinfor.