Jammu: An encounter started on Wednesday between the security forces and terrorists in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.

Officials said that on specific intelligence inputs, security forces started a CASO (Cordon and Search Operation) in the Kalaban forest area of Chatroo sub-division in Kishtwar district on Tuesday evening.

“As the security forces closed in on the hiding terrorists, they fired at the surrounding security personnel, triggering an encounter which is now going on. Further details are awaited,” officials said.

The J&K Police and the security forces have started aggressive anti-terrorist operations targeting terrorists, their overground workers (OGWs) and sympathisers.

This revised strategy is aimed at dismantling the total ecosystem of terror in J

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