Top LeT Terrorist Killed By Security Forces In J&K’s Sopore indiatoday.in

A top-ranking terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, identified as Asif, has been neutralised in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir Sopore. Asif was responsible for a recent shootout and injuries to three family members of a fruit trader in Sopore. The injured also included a young girl Asma Jan. He was also responsible for shooting at a migrant labourer Shafi Alam in Sopore.

This comes after eight terrorist associates, who were involved in threatening and intimidation of locals by publishing and circulating of posters on the behest of LeT affiliates, were arrested on Monday. Those arrested have been identified as Aijaz Mir, Omar Mir, Tawseef Najar, Imitiyaz Najar, Omar Akbar, Faizan Latief, Danish Habib, and Showkat Ahmad Mir.