Pak fires on 16 Indian posts

JAMMU, Sept 18 (PTI) — Pakistani troops opened fire on 16 border outposts along the international border and the police shot dead a Pakistani national during an encounter at Khajra village of Poonch district in Jammu since yesterday, official reports said here today.

The reports said Pakistani border guards, using light arms, opened unprovoked fire on 16 posts in Samba, R.S. Pura and Akhnoor sub-sectors along the IB forcing border security force troops to retaliate.

The Indian posts involved in the firing were Bobiyan, Paharpur, Pansar, Jugnechek, Kanachak, Sangral, Karotna, Golpattan, Abdullian, Beli Azmat, Ballar, Chilyari, Londi, Suchetgarh and Regal.

The intermittent fire-fight continued from 2030 hours yesterday to 0300 hours today without causing any loss of life or damage on the Indian side.

A police spokesman said that on specific information, police parties laid an ambush at seven places in the Kerni sector of Poonch district on Wednesday night.

In the encounter, following militant movement in Khajra village, the body of a Pak national, Abu Ahad, alias Mohammad Nadeen, alias Abu Sayed, of Muzafarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) was recovered along with an AK-47 rifle, two grenades and his personal belongings.

Reports from Srinagar said militants attacked police pickets and their patrols at Mughal Maidan in Kishtwar, Doonigam in Banihal in Doda district and at Radraman in Poonch district last night.

The securitymen retaliated, but there was no casualty.

The spokesman said two militants of Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were apprehended along with a self-loading rifle, an AK assault rifle and seven magazines in Doda district.

Security forces smashed two militant hideouts during search operations at Dandwar in Anantnag district and a post at Barbal in Poonch district last evening.

A large quantity of arms and ammunition including an AK assault rifle, 5 kg of explosives, a remote control device, two grenades were seized during the operations, the spokesman said.

A local militant identified as Mohammad Mukhtar of Budhal was killed in an encounter with security forces at Tanga-Gali in border district of Rajouri in Jammu last evening.

JAMMU (TNS): Two militants were killed and two police jawans injured in an encounter between security forces and insurgents on the Doda-Bhaderwah road on Friday.

Reports reaching here said that a police party, on a tip-off raided a village to smash a hideout of militants. As the police neared the spot, militants opened fire. The police returned the fire. The militants tried to escape and when the police spotted two insurgents, it opened fire killing them on the spot.

In another incident, the police seized 20 packets of RDX from two activists of the Khalistan Zindabad Force, Jagdev Singh and Tejinder Singh. The border police arrested the two suspected militants and after interrogation, seized 20 packets of RDX from Jiwan Nagar within the Jammu municipal area.

The police said the two militants had confessed that they used to cross over to Pakistan frequently and the explosives had been smuggled by them from across the border.