Terror incidents come down in Kashmir Valley

There has been a decrease in terrorist violence in Kashmir with 70 incidents reported this year against 107 in the same period last year, said sources in security establishment. According to a report, security forces were able to foil six attempts of IED blast in Kashmir Valley by the terrorists through their timely detection, preventing serious casualties. The report said that the security forces have been able to stabilise situation in Kashmir after Article 370 was abolished last year in August. It said security forces carried out aggressive anti-terrorists operations to prevent them from creating trouble in the valley and also increased alertness at the LoC so that Pakistan is not able to send large number of terrorists into Kashmir. Due to these measures, the number of active terrorists present right now in the Valley has come down to below 200. Last year, there were intelligence reports that some 350 terrorists were waiting at various launch pads in PoK to infiltrate into J&K. However, Pakistan has increased ceasefire violations with 2,662 number of such incidents reported along LoC till July end. In current year, security forces were able to kill 148 terrorists out of which 14 were foreign terrorists from HM, LeT and JeM. This when in the whole 2019, 152 terrorists were killed in Kashmir by security forces. In 2018, 215 terrorists were neutralised by security forces.