Abu Dujana

Abu Dujana, a Pakistani national was killed on Tuesday in a well-planned operation by a joint team of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army and CRPF in Pulwama district of south Kashmir.

On Tuesday. Firdous Ahmed Khan, a civilian, was killed in protest that erupted following an encounter in which Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Abu Dujana was gunned down by security forces in Pulwama.

Lashkar terrorists Abu Dujana and Arif Lilhaari were the 115th and 116th terrorists to be killed in Jammu and Kashmir this year.

As per official figures shared by top sources in the security establishment, 114 terrorists were eliminated in the Valley state until July 31 this year, as against 92 in the corresponding period of 2016.

Dujana’s routine of meeting his wife, and sometimes other women, was known to security forces. In fact, senior police officer Munir Khan told the media that he had become an “eyesore” for many locals because he would force himself on women and was a repeat offender.

LeT commander Abu Dujana had joined the al-Qaida’s Kashmir cell Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind led by Zakir Musa, a fact that was revealed in the contents of the last phone call Dujana and his associate Lelhari made to the latter’s brother during the gun-battle that led to their killing on August 1.

Army's hit list comes days after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Ahmed Bhat was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area. LeT's Abu Dujana, Hizb's Riyaz Naikoo and Zakir Musa are the prominent faces in the list.

Suspected Islamic State operative Riyas Aboobacker alias Abu Dujana, arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Kasaragod IS module case, was mentally prepared to conduct a suicide attack but was yet to acquire explosives, agency sources said on Tuesday.

Intelligence agencies and Jammu & Kashmir police have found credible evidence to prove that Pakistan was directly involved in Saturday's attack.

Abu Dujana, the Lashkar-e-Taiba commander in south Kashmir, was one of those terrorists who played hide and seek with the security forces and kept them on their toes over a fairly long period of time.

Abu Ismail, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist operating in Kashmir and "architect of Amarnath Yatra attack", was killed on Thursday in an encounter with security forces in Aribagh village of Nowgam in Srinagar district, police said.

A few days back,.J&K police got track of Ismael, a top A++ category foreign terrorist who they had been trying to lay hands on since he masterminded the attack on Amarnath pilgrims.

Three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, including one of the outfit’s top commanders, were gunned down by security forces during an anti-terror operation in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday morning. The slain terrorists were identified as “Omar Fayaz alias Hamad Khan, Adil Bashir alias Abu Dujana and Faizan Hameed,” Kashmir Zone Police confirmed.

Fresh battle lines have been drawn between the BJP and the opposition, primarily the SP, even as UP heads for polls for more than 46,000 primary cooperative societies on Saturday.

According to intelligence inputs, LeT's Kashmir chief Abu Dujana was among those who managed to escape from the encounter site, a police official said.

“Their movements are compromised due to their frequent visits to meet their love interests or sexual partners. The police are in a far better position to generate human intelligence regarding their presence or movements,” the officer said.