Pakistani terrorist Javed was captured after a 20-hour-long gun battle in Rafiabad.
Less than a month after Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Mohammad Naveed was captured, a second Pakistani terrorist has been caught in Jammu and Kashmir today.
What we know about the terrorist and his capture:
- The terrorist captured today has been identified as 22-year-old Javed Ahmed from Muzaffargarh in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
- He also goes by the names Sajjad and Abu Ubedullah, interrogators have learned.
- Javed was captured after a 20-hour-long gun battle in the Rafiabad area around 18 km from the Line of Control and 70 km from state capital Srinagar.
- Army commandos used tear gas and 'chilli grenades' to flush out Javed from the cave he was hiding in.
- Four other terrorists with Javed were killed in the encounter. One died yesterday and three were shot dead today.
- Javed allegedly entered India with the four other terrorists through Uri in Barahmulla district in north Kashmir.
- Javed's group was earlier intercepted in Uri, but they managed to escape. They were spotted again last evening in Rafiabad.
- The Army said it launched a search operation in Rafiabad, which forced the terrorists to move towards a cave in the higher reaches of the Kazinag Dhar Ridge.
- A "huge cache of war like stores which include four AK- 47 Rifles and two UBGLs" was recovered, the Army said in a statement.
- After Javed was arrested he was sent to the Joint Interrogation Centre in Srinagar for questioning.
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