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Top LeT commander among 2 killed in Kashmir encounter
Top Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT commander Waseem Shah is among the two terrorists killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir\'s Pulwama district on Saturday. The 23-year-old Waseem Shah was the main strategist who planned last year\'s unrest in south Kashmir.
Srinagar: Top Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT commander Waseem Shah is among the two terrorists killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday. The 23-year-old Waseem Shah was the main strategist who planned last year's unrest in south Kashmir.
He also went by the name 'Abu Osama'. Security forces launched an operation early in the morning on Saturday after receiving specific intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists in Litter village in Pulwama district. The area of the encounter had been cordoned off, Jammu and Kashmir police said.
The encounter broke out after the terrorists fired at the approaching security personnel. Two terrorists -- Waseem Shah and Nisar Ahmed Mir -- have been killed and the security forces have recovered an AK-47 and an AK-56 along with 6 Avtomat Kalashnikova or AK magazines. Today's encounter in Pulwama's Litter area was the first counter-insurgency operation in the village in four years.
The Jammu and Kashmir police, along with security agencies, had been keeping a track of Waseem Shah's movements. He had recently been operating from Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Pulwama districts, which see a high degree of unrest.
The Lashkar commander, along with his bodyguard Nisar Ahmed Mir tried to run away from the security forces, but could not breach the strong security cordon comprising the CRPF and Indian Army.
A college dropout, Waseem Shah, was a resident of Heff-Shrimal in Shopian district. He joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2014. He was an active Lashkar supporter since his school days, when he used to help the terror group by delivering packages and couriers for them. His father Gul Mohammed Shah runs a fruit business. Nisar Ahmed Mir, who was killed along with Shah on Saturday, joined the LeT in May 2017.
Waseem Shah, who was responsible for recruiting young people to join the LeT, had been carrying a Rs 10 lakh cash reward on his head. Apart from being the "chief architect" of last year’s unrest in south Kashmir, the top LeT commander had planned several attacks on security forces.
