Aiming to wipe out terrorism in two years, says J&K senior police officer

With the number of active local terrorists in the Kashmir division of Jammu & Kashmir now falling to 29, a nearly 73% decline from 109 at the end of 2018, additional DGP (Kashmir Zone) Vijay Kumar on Saturday said J&K police aims to wipe out terrorism in the UT in another two years.

- Bharti Jain

"There are 81 active terrorists in the Kashmir Valley as of now, including 29 locals and 52 foreign terrorists. Bandipora, Kupwara and Ganderbal districts are free of local terrorists, while only 1 local terrorist each is active in Anantnag, Srinagar, Baramulla and Budgam. Also, just three terror chiefs or senior commanders are now based in the valley Hizbul Mujahideen chief Farooq Nalli, Riyaz Sathri of Lashker-e-Toiba and Javed Mattoo (though Mattoo is inactive due to illhealth). Two years ago, 80 terror commanders were active," said Kumar.