Pertinently, on April 24, three terrorists affiliated with Pakistan based terror LeT outfit, were killed in an encounter in Pulwama in Kashmir. Two slain terrorists were identified by the police as Arif Hazar alias Rehan, who was deputy to the outfit's top commander Basit and one was a Pakistani terrorist identified as Haqqani.
IGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar had said that the teenager Natish Shakeel Wani of Baba Demb, Khanyar in old city Srinagar was among the killed terrorists. The teenager had left for afternoon prayers on April 16 and had been missing since, following which his family had issued an appeal asking him return. IGP Kumar said that he had joined the LeT outfit.
