This is the second visit of Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi to Jammu in less than three weeks of his assuming the office. The visits were necessitated by the recent terrorist attacks in Kathua and Doda that cost the nation nine lives of army personnel.
Reasi terror attack: On June 9, terrorists had opened fire at a bus of pilgrims in Reasi and killed 9 of them, including a child. The NIA had earlier conducted searches on multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the case.
The nation observed the 15th anniversary of the gruesome Mumbai terror attacks by Pakistani terrorists in 2008. 10 LeT terrorists had laid siege on the financial capital of India on November 26 15 years ago and had killed over 150 people. Several police personnel had laid down their lives fighting.
Jammu and Kashmir: This was the second targeted killing by the terrorists in the last two days. On Monday, a Unnao labourer - Mukesh Kumar (38) - was shot dead in Pulwama. This was the third terror attack in the UT.
During the presser in Islamabad, Zardari, who had attended the two-day SCO Summit in Goa, said he answered all "the bogus propaganda" of India, despite knowing the fact his country always stood aside with the globally accredited terrorists.
As many as six police officers were injured in attack on police station in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistan CTD officials hostage: Amid the border tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan, detained militants inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) held interrogators hostage on Sunday.
A CRPF jawan Mukthar Ahmad, who was home on leave, was killed by terrorists in Shopian district on Sunday which was the fourth such attack on security personnel in the last three days. Ahmad succumbed to his injuries on the way to a hospital.
The Centre had informed Parliament on November 30 that 40 civilians have been killed and 72 injured in J&K in terror-related incidents till November 15 this year.
The terrorists shot the two policemen from close range, a police official said. Security forces have launched an operation to track down the assailants.
On Thursday also, at least two Army jawans were injured in an attack on a patrolling party in Keran sector of Kupwara. Security forces had launched a combing operation in the area to flush out the terrorists.
The security forces have launched a cordon and search operation in Bon Mohalla of Bandipora's Hajin to track down the terrorists.
Two suicide bombers tore into the heart of Lahore, bombing a famous Islamic Sufi shrine packed with thousands of worshippers, killing at least 45 people, including women and children, and injuring 180 others in the
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