[Daily Excelsior] Two turbans of Lashkar-e-Taiba...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) who beat feet from an Army base after carrying out Fidayeen attack last month were killed in a shootout in Handwara area of North Kashmire this afternoon.
The two turbans were killed in a brief encounter in Warpora area of Handwara after 21 RR of Army and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police Handwara carried out an operation on a specific information regarding the presence of turbans in Warpora.
As the security forces launched searches in the area, turbans fired upon the search party and security forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter. Two turbans affiliated with LeT were killed in this brief encounter.
Two AK 47 rifles, 2 pistols, 4 AK magazines, 77 AK rounds, 2 pistol magazines, 7 pistol ammunition rounds, 2 UBGL grenades, 2 HHR, one matrix sheet C3 and C4 and C6 were recovered from the Fidayeen killed in Panzgam Army base, while one map, one feather jacket and some more articles including some cash were recovered from the encounter site.
The Commanding Officer 21 RR, Colonel Kuldeep Singh said that these two killed turbans were involved in suicide kaboom on Panzgam Army base last month. "We found yet to heal wound on the body of one of the eliminated holy warriors which is indicative of likelihood of his involvement in the Panzgam suicide attack. We have found some other evidence among war like stores confirming their involvement in Panzgam incident."
Giving details of the operation, the Commanding Officer said: "We got information about presence of two holy warriors in the forest area of Handwara. This information came to us this afternoon and we accordingly alongwith the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police Handwara planned an operation to track these terrorists. When we were searching the forest area we observed suspicious movement of two individuals and on being challenged they fired indiscriminately at our joint Army and SOG party. We retaliated and firing continued for 10-15 minutes during which we were able to neutralize both the terrorists. We recovered large quantity of war like stores which includes two AK rifles, two pistols", he said.
These turbans managed to escape from the Panzgam Army base on April 27 and one had received an injury and left his AK-47 rifle there. Three Army personnel including a senior officer and two turbans were killed when turbans of LeT stormed into an Army base in Panzgam village of North Kashmire’s Kupwara district on April 27.