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A Pakistani national arrested along the Line of Control near Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts of Poonch and Rajouri while attempting to infiltrate into India as a terrorist guide, officials said .
Mohammed Arif was leading a group of four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists into the Indian side when he was overpowered and arrested by alert Army troops on Sunday afternoon. The terrorists with him jumped from a steep cliff and returned to the Pakistani side with injuries, the officials said.
Arif, a resident of Datote village in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was arrested from the forward Hajura post in Gambhir area under the Army’s Ace of Spades division, they added. Recapping the events of the day, they said vigilant troops, maintaining an aggressive surveillance posture in the rugged terrain, detected suspicious movement of a group of suspected terrorists attempting to exploit the difficult terrain and dense foliage in order to infiltrate.
While Arif, in his late 20s, was “tactfully captured”, the four terrorists jumped off the cliff when they noticed the Indian Army. They landed in ‘No Man’s Land’ and returned to Pakistani side under the cover of thick foliage and adverse weather conditions, the officials said as reported by PTI.
Army troops could not open fire on the terrorists due to the presence of Pakistani posts nearby, they said. Drone footage of the area showed a blood trail, indicating that the terrorists had suffered injuries due to the fall.
