Jammu, February 22 – A gunfight broke out on Sunday between security forces and terrorists in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The White Knight Corps, headquartered in Nagrota, said on X today, "CONTACT ESTABLISHED WITH TERRORISTS | OP TRASHI - I. Troops of #WhiteKnightCorps, along with @JmuKmrPolice and #CRPF, have established contact with terrorists in the general area of Passerkut, #Kishtwar. The firefight is ongoing. Troops have cordoned off the area. The operation is continuing."
The Army has given the operation against terrorists in the Chatroo area the code name 'Operation Trashi-I'.
Officials said that security forces, including the Army, J&K Police, and the CRPF, launched a CASO (Cordon and Search Operation) in the forest area of Chatroo in Kishtwar district after receiving intelligence about the presence of two to three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists hiding in the densely forested area.
"When the joint forces surrounded the hiding terrorists, they opened fire, triggering an encounter which is currently ongoing. Reinforcements have been rushed to the snowbound area," officials said.
This is the second encounter in this area this month. Earlier, a gunfight had broken out in the same densely forested area on February 4.
More than a dozen encounters have taken place in the last year between the security forces and the terrorists in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar.
It is believed that a group of foreign terrorists are operating in the area, who keep changing their location between Kishtwar, Doda, and Udhampur districts.
The Army, J&K Police, and the CRPF are actively pursuing this group of Pakistani terrorists. This is precisely why the group is moving from one place to another instead of trying to attack the security forces.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given clear orders for the neutralization of Pakistani terrorists in the hilly districts of the Jammu division.
The Union Home Minister called for a mission-mode approach to bring complete peace to the union territory during his last visit to Jammu on February 7.