2 Lashkar terrorists from Pakistan eliminated in J&K's Bandipora
Faisal, one of the slain terrorist, was involved in the killing of three policemen on December 10 last year and on February 11 at Gulshan Chowk and Nishat Park in the Bandipora town along with another Lashkar terrorist Haider.
The security forces on Friday eliminated two terrorists belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. The gunbattle erupted after the security forces launched a search operation in Brar in the Aragam area following inputs about the presence of terrorists.
The security forces eliminated two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrabi/HT)
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Both the killed terrorists have been identified as Faisal alias Sikander and Abu Ukasa. Faisal was involved in the killing of three policemen on December 10 last year and on February 11 at Gulshan Chowk and Nishat Park in the town along with terrorist Haider. The duo shifted the base to central and south Kashmir where they carried out their terror activities.
Haider was eliminated in an encounter on the intervening night of May 7 and 8 at Devsar in Kulgam. He was killed along with another terrorist Shahbaz Shah of Kulgam who was accused in the killing of a civilian Satish Kumar Singh on April 13.
After Haider's killing, theother terrorist Faisal shifted to Budgam where he was joined by Ukasa. After the murder of Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat in Budgam on Thursday, the two Lashkar terrorists again went to Bandipora. After receiving tipoff, the police were able to locate their hideout at Aragam and eliminated both of them in a swift operation within 24 hours.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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