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According to senior officials, Musa's messages and videos are being circulated widely. Terrorists are using this as a trigger for fresh recruits. Funeral pictures of Musa, in which people participated by the thousands, have gone viral

IAF used air power at the height of 32,000 feet for the first time. From identifying Pakistani troops and Mujahideens to interdiction, all the actions were performed well by pilots and engineers despite being trained for just one week

Sources told MyNation that a Road Opening Party (ROP) of the army was clearing the Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch highway connecting twin border districts when they came across the explosive device

In his post, the Kashmiri student has used ‘Zindabad’ and ‘Miss you’ in reference to Musa, who was the chief of terror outfit Ansar Ghazwatul Hind and member of slain terrorist Burhan Wani’s group

Hemkund Sahib, which is a revered Sikh Gurudwara, is situated at a height of 3,000 feet in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district

According to the senior officers in the forces, the army is going all guns ablaze to clean up terrorists in Kashmir. They want to keep a check on fresh recruitment, and by killing Musa, the message is loud and clear that no one will be spared if they stand against the forces. 

Zakir Musa was the head of the Ansar Ghazwatul Hind. He was persuaded to surrender but is said to have retaliated and fired back at the forces
 

According to the reports, the explosive was planted by enemies. An army patrol of 12 Madras Regiment was going through the area at Dhera Dabsi when the explosion took place.

As the joint team of forces intensified the searches and fired some warning shots towards the suspected spot, the terrorists hiding inside opened fire leading to a gunfight in which two militants have been killed
 

Realising the importance of the role of education in transforming the society, the Army has identified education as a priority area for the military - civic program under Operation Sadbhavana in Jammu and Kashmir

In 2010, as many as 270 militants were killed in action by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The number reduced to 119 in 2011. Then in 2012, 84 ultras were killed, 100 in 2013, 110 (2014), 113 (2015), 165 (2016) and 218 last year

Terror outfits have already threatened to boycott polls. Coincidentally the 17th day of Ramzan is on May 23, and even in past militants have chosen the 17th day of Ramzan, which is also the day of the battle of Jang-e-Badr, to attack security installations in the Valley.
 

Three top JeM terrorists, who were involved in several cases in past, were reportedly killed. One of the terrorists, Khalid, was active since the past eight years in Kashmir

Pakistani-based terrorist groups are trying to push more operatives into the Indian side across the LoC. There has also been a constant effort to radicalise Kashmiri youth and convince them into joining terrorist ranks.

On this day in 1998, India celebrated the success of ‘Operation Shakti’, testing five nuclear devices at Indian Army’s Test Range at Pokharan in Rajasthan