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India-Pakistan
JeM commander among 3 terrorists killed in J&K's Kishtwar in encounter
2026-02-23
[IsraelTimes] Notorious JeM commander was reportedly behind several attacks on security forces in the region after he infiltrated into J&K five years ago.

Three bandidos snuffies of Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit have allegedly been killed in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
’s Kishtwar district under Operation Trashi-I, the Indian Army's White Knight Corps said in a statement, adding that a joint operation by teams of J&K Police, Army and the CRPF was launched following credible intelligence inputs collated from the police and other intelligence agencies.

One of the two slain bandidos snuffies has been identified as notorious commander Saifullah, not HT has learnt, while the security forces have recovered two AK-47 rifles and other ammunitions from the site of encounter. The bodies of all the slain bandidos snuffies were charred beyond recognition as the mud house they were hiding in caught fire during the shootout, PTI reported, citing officials.

Earlier, the Army had said that an encounter broke out in Passerkut in the Chatroo area of the district at about 10:30 am.

The teams received input about two Pak bandidos snuffies linked to the banned group Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
 being present there, officials told news agency PTI.

The terrorists, who were reportedly hiding inside a mud house at the foothills, opened fire as troops moved closer, leading to an exchange of gunfire. Notably, the Chatroo forest belt saw nearly six shootouts between bandidos snuffies and security forces last month, in which a soldier and a terrorist were killed.

SAIFULLAH HAD INFILTRATED INTO INDIA FIVE YEARS AGO
JeM commander Saifullah had been active in the region ever since he infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir nearly five years ago. He was allegedly the criminal mastermind behind several deadly attacks on security forces, including one in July 2024 that left four soldiers dead.

Saifullah had escaped a number of encounters in the past, PTI reported.
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