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Jammu and Kashmir Police and security forces on Wednesday gunned down two terrorists, including LeT commander Naseer-u-din Lone, in an encounter in Ganipora Kralgund area of Kashmir's Handwara district. Represent ative  A day after security forces gunned down a top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander in Baramulla, another terrorist of the Pakistan-based outfit has been killed. Jammu and Kashmir Police and security forces on Wednesday gunned down two terrorists, including LeT commander Naseer-u-din Lone, in an encounter in Ganipora Kralgund area of Kashmir's Handwara district. Naseer-u-din Lone was involved in the killing of three CRPF jawans at Sopore on April 18 and three CRPF jawans at Handwara on May 4, earlier this year, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said. Wednesday's encounter had broken out at around 9.30 pm. A joint team of J&K Police and security forces gunned down two terrorists by 10.15 pm, one of whom was later identified as LeT commander Naseer-u-din Lone. "LeT comman...

Representative Image Recent "uncoordinated" acts of violence in North Kashmir are "signs of desperation" by terrorists which are not finding resonance among people who want to get out of the cycle of violence, a fact visible in the sharp dip this year in the recruitment of local youths in terror groups, a senior Army officer has said. Lt Gen B S Raju, heading the Kashmir-based XV corps, feels the basic premise of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is to create sensationalism that is backed by false separatist narratives and propaganda sponsored from Pakistan. These acts of terrorism are "... not finding much favour among the awaam (public), these uncoordinated terrorist acts are a sign of desperation. There is no semblance of any space where terrorists or separatists are in control," Gen Raju told PTI in an email interview. "Overall, the people want a solution, they want to get out of this cycle of violence and that is the reason that the support for terr...