Four males related to the Jammu Kashmir Ghaznavi Force, a Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot, had been arrested in Balakote space alongside the Line of Control on Monday, Jammu and Kashmir Police stated, including that they had been planning to focus on non secular locations in border Poonch and Rajouri districts.
Inspector General of Police (Jammu) Mukesh Singh, who was in Poonch district to take inventory of the scenario, stated Pakistan was making an attempt to recruit native youths to focus on non secular locations to stoke communal stress.
Police stated the arrests got here a day after an IED planted on the Mendhar-Goliad street was destroyed by safety forces. Three JKGF operatives had been arrested final month in Balakote space, with safety forces seizing arms and ammunition on completely different events.
Police claimed to have unearthed the presence of JKGF in Poonch with the arrest of 1 Mustafa Khan of Gulta Harni after his car was intercepted close to Basooni village in Balakote space final month.
During questioning, he instructed the police about his associates, which led to 2 extra arrests, police stated.
