Top Hizb militant who helped Pak terror commander flee killed in Valley

SRINAGAR: A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant who helped Pakistani terrorist commander Naveed Jutt escape from a hospital last year while he was in police custody was killed in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday in an encounter that also left one soldier dead and another injured. The encounter took place when army soldiers and the special operation group of Jammu and Kashmir police were conducting a search in Pulwama’s Ratnipora late Monday night, the police said.

The militant was identified as Hilal Ahmad Rather of Behgambagh Kakapora.