JAMMU: As a serious breakthrough within the current terror assault case in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district the place 5 Army troopers had been killed, safety forces have traced and detained the native who supplied shelter to the terrorists, official sources stated. As the huge search operation to search out the terrorists entered its sixth day on Wednesday, safety forces traced and detained an area named Nisar Ahmad, who supplied shelter to the terrorists for greater than two months, earlier than they carried out the assault on April 20.
Terrorists had ambushed an Army automobile utilizing armour piercing bullets, grenades and a few incendiary materials in Bhata Dhurian space of Poonch district. Five Army troopers had been killed on this assault and one was critically injured. Terrorists had decamped with the weapons of the slain troopers. A lesser identified offshoot of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) terror outfit calling itself People`s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) had owned accountability for the assault.
“The leads to trace the harbourer of the terrorists came through questioning of 50 people detained during the search operation.” “After sustained interrogation, Nasir Ahmad confessed that he sheltered the terrorists for more than two months prior to the attack on the Army personnel,” sources stated.
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Army’s Udhampur headquartered Northern Command, Lt. General Upendra Dwivedi, reviewed the progress of the search operation for the second time on Wednesday. The large search operation is unfold over massive areas of Poonch and Rajouri districts, together with dense forest with thick foliage, pure caves and gorges.
