Incidents involving Lashkar-e-Toiba

2008

May 12: The SFs killed a Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Maseh, in an encounter at Surankote in the Poonch district. A Special Police Officer, Shamim Ahmed, was reportedly injured in the operation.
May 11: Four civilians, two soldiers and two militants of the LeT were killed in an encounter in the Samba town of Jammu. Among the slain civilians were chief photographer of Daily Excelsior Ashok Sodhi, a prominent leader from Samba Hoshiar Singh and his wife, and another woman. 16 SF personnel, including the Superintendent of Police (Operations), Mubassir Latifi, and two women were injured in the day long gun-battle. Official sources said that two militants wearing Army uniform intruded into the house of Hoshiar Singh, general secretary of Indian National Democratic Party, in Samba town at 5.58am (IST) by scaling the boundary wall. After killing Hoshiar Singh and his wife on the spot, the militants subsequently moved towards the Kaili Mandi area and took hostage three women and two children. In the consequent encounter, two soldiers, Aziz Ahmed and Atul Negi, and a woman were killed. At about 5pm, the SFs stormed the house where the militants were hiding and shot dead both of them. Two AK-47 rifles, one rifle grenade launcher, some eatables, a wire cutter and a night vision device were recovered from their possession.
May 3: One LeT militant, identified as Qasim Din, was arrested by the SFs in the Bonjwah area of Kishtwar district. He was a close associate of Abu Hamza, a top LeT militant, who was gunned down by the SFs at Bonjwah four days back. Qasim had managed to escape in the encounter in which Abu Hamza was killed and had since then taken shelter in Kanuao forest. One SLR with two magazines and 26 rounds were recovered from him.
April 30: India was among the countries worst affected by terrorism with militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and in the Northeast, attacks by Naxalites and attacks elsewhere in the country taking a toll of more than 2,300 lives in 2007, the US State Department said. The State Department, in its annual report on terrorism, said terrorist activities along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir are on the decline but Pakistan-based militant outfits like the LeT and other terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in the Valley. "Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba and other Kashmir-focused groups continued regional attack planning. In 2007, Kashmir-focused groups continued to support attacks in Afghanistan, and operatives trained by the groups continued to feature in Al-Qaeda transnational attack planning," it said.
April 29: A top Pakistani militant of the LeT, Mohammed Maqbool alias Abu Hamza, and a police constable, Kikkar Singh, were killed in an encounter at village Muslai in the Kishtwar district. Abu Hamza was active in the Kishtwar and Doda districts for the last four to five years and had been rated as ‘A’ category militant.

The Baramulla Police arrested four persons, including a branch manager of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd, for illegal exchange of foreign currency and its subsequent supply to militants of the LeT.

The LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, informed Daily Excelsior over telephone that all of his organisation's holed up militants had managed to escape in the 36-hour-long gun-battle in the Rajwar forest area of Handwara-Zachaldara belt. He claimed that as many as 10 troopers, including a Commanding Officer and a Major, were killed in the two-day long encounter. Officials while confirming the encounter, however, stated that no militant, civilian or police personnel were killed or injured in the two-day-long gun-battle.
April 28: SFs in Kishtwar arrested a LeT militant, Mohammad Ibrahim alias Abu Mussa, from the Pathro area. From his possession, police recovered one AK-47 rifle, three magazines and 90 rounds of ammunition.
April 24: The Superintendent of Police (Handwara), Dr Haseeb Mughal, said that about 30 militants of the LeT and JeM were still active in Handwara-Kandi belt of Kupwara district.
April 22: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sriprakash Jaiswal, replying to questions in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) said that the banned SIMI has links with terrorist groups, including the LeT. He said that the links have been revealed in investigations into a number of cases.

The involvement of Pakistan-based outfits has been observed in most of the terrorist attacks in India as groups from across the border continue to sponsor terrorist and subversive activities in the country, the Union Home Ministry said in its Annual Report for 2007-08. "The hand of Pakistan-based terrorist organisations - LeT and JeM - and, increasingly of the Bangladesh-based HuJI, known to have close links with ISI, has been observed in most of these cases," the 167-page report said. The incidents showed these groups have been using sleeper cells in the country to carry out such activities, and have also been using the territory of other neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal, it said.
April 20: Awantipora police arrested three OGWs, identified as Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Assadullah Gani and Ashiq Hussain Bhat, from the Padgampora area. Four hand grenades were recovered from them, an official spokesman said and disclosed that all the three OGWs were assigned the task by LeT’s Pakistani militants to carry out grenade attacks on the convoys of the SFs on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
April 19: The SFs in a day long gun battle killed four heavily armed militants in the Rang forest area, about 6-km ahead of Warnow in the Kupwara district. Three of the slain militants, residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, were identified as Amjad Bhai, Abu Saifullah and Irshad Ahmed. While Amjad Bhai was a top wanted ‘district commander’ of the JeM who had been operating in the Lolab area for the last six years, Abu Saifullah and Arshad were both cadres of the LeT. SSP, Kupwara, Vijay Kumar, confirmed the death of four militants said that four AK rifles and a number of grenades were among the arms and ammunition seized at the site of the encounter.
April 18: SFs arrested two militants of the LeT outfit from Seri Bazaar in the Bhadarwah town of Doda district and recovered some arms, ammunition and incriminating documents from their possession. They were identified as Ikhlaq Ahmed (code name Muzamil Bhat) and Abdul Samad Hajam. From their possession, SFs recovered one Chinese pistol with one magazine and five rounds, two mobile telephones, INR 2050, one purse with LeT sticker, one head band of LeT and a large quantity of incriminating material.
April 15: A soldier, identified as Dalip Singh, was killed during an encounter between the SFs and a group of LeT militants at village Khari in the Ramban.
April 14: SFs killed a ‘district commander’ of the LeT in an encounter in the Harwan area of Srinagar. He was identified as Zakaria, a Pakistani militant. LeT spokesman Abdullah Gazali confirmed the death of Zakaria but said that he would be issuing a statement after getting all details.
April 12: The SFs in an encounter killed a ‘district commander’ of the LeT, identified as Shabir Ahmad Bhat alias Mansoor, at Peer Mohalla in the Chakura village of Pulwama district. According to police, Mansoor was a listed "A" category militant of the outfit and had crossed over to Pakistan in 2001 and returned to Valley in October 2006.
April 11: JeM and LeT, the Pakistan-based terrorist groups, are among the 44 outfits designated as ‘Foreign Terrorist Organisations’ (FTO) by the US. Besides these two, other groups active in India — the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami and Pakistan-based HuM — are also in the FTO list issued by the office of the coordinator for counter terrorism of the US Department of State.
April 7: All the religious outfits which were banned by General Pervez Musharraf during his military rule would approach the Supreme Court of Pakistan and seek restoration, chief of the proscribed LeT group. "The ban was a step that the retired General took only to please America and now it is abundantly clear that people have rejected his policies," Hafiz Saeed, LeT (now known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa) chief told The News. He criticised President Musharraf's Kashmir policy and alleged that the 'U-turn' taken by the Musharraf Government on Kashmir had badly damaged the cause of the Kashmiris' ‘freedom struggle’.
March 23: Three police personnel and a CRPF constable died in an encounter with militants on the outskirts of capital Srinagar in which they succeeded in killing Abu Faisal of Pakistan, a 'divisional commander' of the LeT. The gunfight ensued after the security forces surrounded a house in the Telbal locality, where some militants were hiding. According to the Police press release, Abu Faisal was responsible for a number of subversive acts and armed attacks in the Kangan-Ganderbal belt.
March 21: Two children, Mohammad Afzal and Akram Ashraf, were killed in a grenade explosion in the Gawari area of Doda district. Police said that some unidentified militants lobbed a grenade near a house at Gawari village leading to the death of two boys who were playing near their house. Police sources added that the militants lobbed the grenade to avenge the killing of four LeT militants in the same area.
March 19: The Doda district police and Army shot dead four militants of the LeT outfit, including a 'district commander', in an encounter at Gwari Shah under the jurisdiction of Gandoh police station. Two police personnel sustained injuries in the operation. The slain militants were identified as 'district commander' Imtiaz Hussain alias Abu Turab, Sadam Hussain, Suraf Nawaz alias Mehnaz and Sagir Ahmed of Pakistan.
March 16: SFs killed Hafiz Naasir, one of the most wanted militants and the Kashmir valley chief of the LeT, in an encounter at village Chatlura near Sopore town in the Baramulla district. Lt. Col. M. S. Kadam, the officiating Commanding Officer of Rashtriya Rifles (22 Battalion), and another soldier, identified as Pradeep Kumar, are reported to have died and four SF personnel injured in the encounter. Hafiz Naasir, a Pakistani militant, had been appointed sometime in 2007 as LeT operational chief in Kashmir after working in the Valley for about ten years. Deputy Inspector General of Police (north Kashmir), Dr. B Srinivas, described Naasir as the most wanted militant in the Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara districts.
March 15: A LeT militant was arrested along with electronic gadgets, including a laptop, the police said. The police raided the house of Shabir Ahmed alias Pappu in the Sabra village on March 14-night and recovered a laptop and pen drive from his possession, they said. The laptop recovered from Pappu originally belonged to slain LeT 'divisional commander' Abu Umar, the police said, adding Umar was involved in the killing of Deputy Superintendent of Police Shelly Singh.
March 14: Police in the Chakwal city of Punjab province in Pakistan arrested four persons on charges of their alleged links with the banned LeT.
March 12: A militant of the LeT was killed by the security forces in a gun-battle at Rampore in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. While Defence sources confirmed the death of one militant, Police officials insisted that three militants of the group were "believed to be dead." The Deputy Inspector General of Police (North Kashmir) said that no dead body had been recovered till late night. Unnamed officials said that Lashkar-e-Toiba's radio intercepts since the evening were also mentioning death of three militants.
March 10: Police claimed to have foiled a plan to carry out Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack at Srinagar by the LeT. Following an intelligence outfit that the LeT cadres were planning to carry out a suicide attack in the city, security forces carried out a raid on a house in the Harwan area and recovered police uniforms, pouches, three sewing machines, six hand grenades, seven AK magazines, 200 rounds of ammunition, one 2 inch mortar, one Thuraya phone and some coded documents.
March 7: Police unearthed a Hawala racket supplying money to the LeT operatives in the Kandi and Buddal areas of Rajouri district. The Police conducted series of raids in the Kandi area and arrested Zulfikar, brother of a slain HM militant Abdul Qayoom, who died in July 2007, and Muhammad Qadir of Larkuti, while they were purchasing shoes and other food items for militants operating in the area. "The police team also recovered Rs 1.5 lakh of hawala money from the possession of the arrested persons. The money was to be handed over to LeT commander Saqib (operating in Kandi and Buddal areas)", sources said.
March 5: SFs killed a holed up militant in the overnight operation at Chitti Bandi in the Bandipora district. One militant had died in the initial round of firing and another was trapped inside a residential house. Sources said that troops destroyed the target hideout, killing the holed up militant. Official sources said that one of the two slain militants was identified as Abu Abdullah alias Mohammad Saleem, a Pakistani national. They stated that both the militants belonged to the LeT. A defence spokesman stated that both the militants were killed at a time when they were planning a strike on the former counter-insurgent and current legislator from Bandipora, Usman Majeed.
March 2: SFs arrested two Over-Ground Workers of the LeT, identified as Sajjad Ahmed Bhat and Riyaz Ahmed Shah, in the Chakora area of Pulwama district.

Police arrested a militant and his five associates including two women, from the outskirts of Doda town when they were smuggling a consignment of arms and ammunition from Kulgam to Doda district. The arms were being smuggled for a ‘divisional commander’ of the LeT outfit.
February 15: A top Pakistani militant of the LeT outfit involved in the November 23, 2007 bomb blasts in various courts across Uttar Pradesh was killed along with his associate in an encounter with police in the Pulwama district. Self-styled district commander Abdul Rahman alias Rehman Bhai, a Pakistani, and a local militant Moin Ahmed Mir were killed at Niloora-Aglar village. Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda told reporters that the slain LeT commander was involved in the November 23 blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow courts in which 13 civilians were killed. "As per the UP police investigation, the LeT group that was responsible for sending arms and ammunition for attack at Rampur is the same group to which Rehman belongs", he said, adding "Rehman was part of the group headed by Abu Aatif which had supplied the arms to the Rampur attackers." The investigations also revealed that Rehman was closely associated with LeT militants not only in the Kashmir Valley but outside the State, he said.
February 12: SF personnel shot dead three LeT militants in an encounter at village Sarhuti under the jurisdiction of Mendhar police station in the Poonch district. A fourth militant, however, is reported to have escaped from the incident site. With this, nine militants, including six infiltrators, have been killed in the past one week in Mendhar sector.
February 7: A top militant of the LeT, identified as Showkat Ali alias Abu Haroon (set code Victor 6), surrendered before the Special Operations Group (SOG) Jammu.
February 5: SFs shot dead two suspected LeT militants in an encounter at Bindi Gala, about three kilometers inside the Line of Control in the Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district.
February 2: Three top LeT militants, belonging to Pakistan, and two police personnel, including a constable and a Special Police Officer, were killed while soldier was injured as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt on Line of Control in the Ghani forests of Mendhar sector in Poonch district. The operation was still on till the reports last came in.
January 27: The Karnataka Police is reported to have recently arrested a cook and a medical student for alleged terrorist links. The duo revealed that they had plans of bombing the Hubli airport. During the interrogation of Mohammad Ghouse and his associate Assadullah Abbubukar, the police learnt that Ghouse's father Mohammad Naseeruddin is a LeT operative and has received training in Pakistan. Intelligence Bureau sources said that Naseerruddin is a trained suicide bomber, who was trained at Muzafarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Assadullah reportedly met Ghouse at a religious meeting in Hubli in 2007, and was influenced by the latter to take up the jihadi cause. The police have also recovered CDs and maps of various installations from the duo.
January 24: A female militant of the LeT outfit, active for the last three years, was arrested by the Doda police. She was stated to be very close to LeT ‘divisional commander’, Shabir Ittoo, and actively worked for the outfit in Doda and its adjoining localities. Senior Superintendent of Police, Manohar Singh, while confirming the arrest said 23-year-old Samrina Bano, daughter of Ghulam Nabi Shah of Doda, was undergoing nurse training at the Health Department in Doda. She was very close to the LeT divisional commander and was instrumental in shifting cash consignments and arms and ammunitions for the militants. Intelligence agencies had reportedly intercepted messages of the LeT divisional commander who was in constant touch with Samrina Bano. This is the third such incident during the past six months when a female militant was arrested in the Jammu region. On September 7, 2007, the Jammu police had arrested a law student, Nahida Altaf, who was close to Saifullah Karri of the JeM. Karri was killed in a joint operation of the Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police. In similar case, Kishtwar police arrested two sisters from the Sangram Bhatta area. One of the girls was arrested with a HM and INR 200000 was also recovered from their possession.

A HM militant was arrested by the SOG of Jammu Police from a rented house at Dogra Hall in Jammu city. He was working as a Supervisor with a Chandigarh-based English newspaper to hide his credentials. The militant was identified as Riyaz Ahmed Shah alias Raja, a resident of Shangran in the Anantnag district. Preliminary investigations revealed that Raja, a ‘B’ category militant, was involved in the killing of a civilian Jabbar Khanday in 2005 under the jurisdiction of Dooru police station.
January 23: Bharat Bhushan, a Village Defence Committee member, was abducted and subsequently killed by militants of the LeT in the Doda district. The killing has been described as revengeful action as the deceased had fought valiantly with militants in the same area resulting in the killing of two LeT cadres three days back.
January 21: All the three holed up militants of the LeT were killed by the SFs at the residence of two activists of the ruling People’ Democratic Party (PDP) at Mandigam village in the Handwara area of Kupwara district in a 30-hour-long gun-battle. Sources said that the encounter came to an end at 1130 hours. All three militants were killed when SFs destroyed their hideout at the twin houses of PDP activists, Ashiq Hussain Parray and Mushtaq Ahmed Mir. Officials said that Major Parmar and another soldier were wounded in the encounter. LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi identified the slain militants as Abdullah Gauri, Abu Issa and Abu Faidullah. He also claimed that nine soldiers, including a Major, were killed in the gun-battle.

SFs killed two more militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in a gun-battle at Alyalpora village in Shopian district. They were identified as ‘battalion commander’ Tahir-ul-Islam and Mohammad Hanief Dar.
January 20: One of the LeT militants, holed up in a house at Mandigam village in Handwara was killed by the SFs.
January 15: Security forces killed Abu Kital alias Abu Hamza, ‘district commander’ of the LeT, in an encounter in the Bandipora district.
January 13: Personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Rashtriya Rifles killed two militants of the LeT outfit in separate encounters in the Doda district. According to Manahor Singh, Senior Superintended of Police, two unidentified LeT militants were killed in Shonsh and Banshal areas, under the Doda police station.
January 12: Troops cordoned the house of one Mangta Bhat at village Bikhrain under the jurisdiction of Doda police station and shot dead two top LeT militants who had taken shelter in the house. The slain cadres were identified as Altaf Hussain and Irshad Ahmed.

A militant of the LeT outfit, identified as Farooq Ahmed Bhat, was killed by troops in the Bhagwah area of Doda district. Bhat was a ‘B’ grade militant of the LeT outfit and was active in Doda district since 2003.
January 10: A suspected LeT cadre, Abbas Khan alias Akhdas Khan alias Mohsin Alam, was arrested for his alleged involvement in a fake currency racket in Kolkata, by the detective department from a house at Chamru Singh Lane in East Kolkata’s Narkeldanga area. He had earlier been convicted by a Gujarat court for the Godhra violence but was released on bail. He had jumped parole and remained untraceable. An unspecified amount of fake currency notes of INR 500 and INR 1,000 denomination were recovered from him. Khan was subsequently remanded in police custody till January 15.
January 5: A top LeT commander Abu Muslim was found dead at Seeldhar in the Gool area of Ramban district. While local people claimed that the militant had died due to illness, official sources said an exact reason is yet to be ascertained.

Security forces (SFs) arrested an OGW of LeT from Baramulla district. He was identified as Javed Ahmed Lone. One pistol, a pistol magazine, 38 rounds of pistol ammunition, two electric detonators and one remote control IED circuit with battery, were recovered from his possession.

SFs rescued two youths from captivity of LeT after raiding a hideout of the outfit at village Lonepura in the Doda district. Two OGWs of the outfit were also arrested following the raid.
January 2: SFs arrested an over-ground worker of the LeT, identified as Abdul Hamid Ganai, from Sumbal.

2007

December 23: The STF personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Police shot dead two suspected LeT militants in an encounter on Dewa Road, 18 kilometers from State capital Lucknow. The duo was traveling in a car and was intercepted near the Central Food Technological Research Centre on Dewa Road. Brij Lal, the Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order and STF), said that both the unidentified terrorists were part of a Fidayeen (suicide squad) team and had entered the State from Nepal. He further said that the slain terrorists had planned a big terrorist attack in Lucknow. A map with notings in Urdu was recovered from them.

Security forces killed two Pakistani cadres of the LeT, identified as Abu Anas and Mohsin in an encounter at Papchhan village in the Bandipora district.

A Pakistani militant of the LeT outfit was killed in an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police at village Harah under the jurisdiction of Gool police station in Ramban district. He has been identified as Abu Umar, a Pakistani, operating in Gool for the last one and a half year.
December 13: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested two over-ground workers of the LeT group, identified as Rahim Malik a.k.a. Osama, and Mushtaq Dar a.k.a. Chandi, from Sopore in the Baramulla district. A police spokesman said that two hand grenades were recovered from their possession.
December 7: Security forces killed a militant in an ambush at Dalwath in the Safapora area of Bandipora district. Three of his associates, however, managed to escape from the incident site. The slain militant is believed to be a Pakistani cadre of the LeT.
December 6: Police arrested a LeT militant during a search operation at village Bansan in the Reasi district. Senior Superintendent of Police, J. L. Sharma, identified the arrested militant as Liaquat Ali. On his disclosures, police personnel recovered two UBGL grenades. Ali had joined the LeT outfit only seven months back and was since then operating in the Gool area, according to Daily Excelsior.
Pakistani militants of the LeT and JeM have joined hands with the HuJI of Bangladesh to destabilise India’s sovereignty taking the strategic advantage of the eastern border, the Director General of BSF, A. K. Mitra, said. Talking to the media in Agartala, Mitra pointed out that the western frontier of India was relatively tough for Pakistani militants but the eastern border with Bangladesh had become more useful for them and foreign militants were utilising South Bengal border for anti-Indian activities. He disclosed that 14 militants of the LeT and JeM were arrested in South Bengal border, trying to sneak into India from Bangladesh in the past six months. Speaking on the recent terrorist attacks in India, including the recent serial bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh, Mitra said circumstantial evidence point to a kind of a joint mission by the HUJI, along with LeT and JeM.
December 5: Two soldiers, Chuni Lal and Muzaffar Ahmed, and an equal number of militants affiliated to the LeT group died in an overnight gun-battle at Ladhermud in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district.
December 3: The Supreme Court stayed the death sentence of a LeT militant in the Red Fort attack case in which three Army personnel were killed on December 22, 2000. A bench comprising Justices G. P. Mathur and P. Sadasivam also issued notices on the petition of Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and LeT militant to the Delhi Government. The Delhi High Court had confirmed the death sentence of the petitioner on September 14, 2007. A trial court had sentenced the petitioner to death in 2005 and Nazir Ahmed Quasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Quasid to life imprisonment. The High Court had, however, acquitted six others in the case. The petitioner had challenged his conviction and sentence in the case on the grounds that there was no evidence against him showing his involvement in the conspiracy and both the Trial Court and High Court had committed a grave error of law.
December 2: Police in Kupwara district arrested Waqar Ahmed and Feroz Ahmed War, both members of the LeT, along with some arms and ammunition, a radio set and two mobile phones.
November 29: Police killed Salman alias Hassan, a 'district commander' of the LeT, in a brief encounter in the Shalimar Bagh area of capital Srinagar. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir), S. M. Sahai, said that one Sub Inspector of the Special Operations Group of Srinagar District Police, Arshid, sustained minor injuries in the incident. A Police headquarters press release added that Salman had carried out a number of attacks on security forces and tourists and he was also involved in a suicide attack.
November 28: The SOG of police and troops shot dead a LeT militant, identified as Imtiyaz Ahmed, in an encounter at village Kither in the Gandoh area of Doda district.
November 28: One Over Ground Worker of the LeT outfit, Javid Ahmad Mallah, was arrested by police in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.
November 26: A LeT militant, Mohammed Rafiq Sheikh alias Abu Haider, was shot dead while his associate, who had come to meet his wife in the house of her relatives at Rang Bagla Neeram in the Mahore area of Reasi district, escaped after an encounter with the SF personnel.
November 25: SFs recovered four Improvised Explosive Devices and nine kilograms of explosives from a natural cave in the Mangal forest area of Rajouri district. The consignment reportedly belonged to the LeT outfit, sources said.
November 21: Pakistan army has developed a new type of "floating air pillow" to infiltrate militants from newly developed infiltration routes through rivers along the Line of Control and International Border in Jammu sector. The "air pillows" were reported to have been successfully used by a group of five militants to infiltrate into Indian territory from Munawar Tawi along Sunderbani-Khour sector on the Rajouri-Jammu border, official sources said. The information on infiltration by the militants using specially designed floating air pillows has been revealed by Mohammed Sharif alias Sharka, a top LeT militant, who was operating in Rajouri district for the last seven years and was directly in touch with top LeT commanders and Pakistan army officers through his sophisticated wireless sets and phones. Sharka, who had surrendered before Rajouri Police a few days back, has disclosed that a group of five LeT militants had successfully used floating air pillows to cross Munawar Tawi from Sunderbani sector in Rajouri district and reached the Indian side of LoC in the first week of October 2007. From Sunderbani, the militants were taken to Gool-Gulabgarh via Pir Panjal range by a guide of the LeT outfit, sources added.
November 16: In Sopore, unidentified militants opened fire on a former decoy of the LeT at Mohalla Momkak locality. He sustained gunshot wounds.
November 15: SF personnel killed two Pakistani cadres of the LeT during an encounter in the Machhil area near Sonapindi on the Line of Control.
November 14: Two Pakistani militants of the LeT were shot dead by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles and police in an encounter at village Seri Chowanan in the Mandi area of Poonch district. The slain militants were identified as Abu Qasim and Abu Hyder with the help of two identity cards recovered from their possession. Both of them have reportedly operating in Poonch district for the last eight months.
November 12: Four Pakistani militants - two each of the HuM and LeT, were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Dooru in the Sopore area of Baramulla district. Three of the slain militants were identified as HuM "Deputy Chief" for Jammu and Kashmir, Qari Umar, and ‘commander’ Bilal Afghani and LeT cadre Abu Faris alias Daanish alias Shamsheer. One soldier was killed and four others were wounded in the encounter.
November 11: Two ‘Fidayeen’ cadres of the LeT, holed up in a hotel at Sopore town in the Baramulla district for the past three days, were killed by SFs. A CRPF personnel too was killed during the encounter. Six other SF personnel were also injured in the encounter. The militants were identified as Abu Osama Zeeshan alias Qasim of Leh district in the NWFP of Pakistan and Abu Talha alias Janbaz Mumtaz Ullah of Meanwali district in Pakistan.
November 9: Five militants and four SF personnel, including a Major, were killed in an encounter which lasted four days at Sadpora Mohalla in the Pattan town of Baramulla district. Commander of the 10 Sector Rashtriya Rifles, Brigadier K. A. Muthana, informed that all the five militants killed were foreign nationals affiliated to the Pakistan-based LeT. Major V. S. Sandu and three soldiers were killed in the encounter which began on November 6-evening.
November 8: Two LeT militants opened fire on a bunker of the CRPF personnel who retaliated at Main Chowk in Sopore town of Baramulla district. Subsequent to the retaliatory firing, militants ran into a hotel Newlight and took positions on its top floor. Police and paramilitary personnel managed to evacuate a large number of holed up civilians and later engaged the militants in a gun battle.
November 7: Three soldiers and two LeT militants were killed during an encounter in Sad Mohalla in the highway township of Pattan in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. The encounter had begun on November 6 evening following reports of LeT militants hiding in two houses of the area. At least five soldiers, including a JCO, sustained injuries in the continuing encounter. Three more LeT militants are suspected to have escaped from the cordoned locality.
Two LeT militants, Mohd Sharif alias Sharka and Mohd Mushtaq, surrendered before police in Rajouri. According to official sources, they disclosed that the militants especially foreign mercenaries of LeT and JeM were strengthening their positions in Pir Panjal ranges and have even started operating training camps for local militants there.
November 4: Two LeT militants present in a hideout at Thathri in the Sonarthawa area of Doda district were killed following a four-hour long encounter. Both were identified as Showkat Ali Khan (code name Abu Zubair) of Gojru Thathri and Abdul Latif (code name Abu Zubair) of Loharthawa.
October 28: At Chalpura village in Kupwara district, troops arrested an over ground worker of the LeT, Javed Ahmed Khan.
October 20: The Personal Security Officer of the Superintendent of Police in Sopore and a Pakistani militant of the LeT were killed during an encounter at Malpora, close to Malmapanpora, on Sopore-Bandipore road in the Baramulla district. One civilian and a policeman were injured in the incident while the SP escaped unhurt. Meanwhile, spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, said that one militant of his organisation died after killing five SOG personnel, including an Inspector. He identified the militant killed as Abu Abdullah Jaish and claimed that yet another encounter started between the militants of his organisation and security forces in the same area at 1630 hours. He said that the encounter was underway and details were not available immediately. Officials, however, maintained that only one constable got killed and one more sustained injuries before the militant was gunned down and said that no other encounter took place in Sopore or any other place in Kashmir valley on October 20.
October 16: SFs killed three militants of the LeT outfit in the in the Lancha area of Ramban district. While two of the slain militants were identified as Rafeeq and Liyaqat, the identity of the third was not known.
October 14: SFs arrested three hardcore militants of the LeT after an encounter at Pattimal in the Kishtwar district and recovered a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives from their possession. They were identified as Nissar Ahmed alias Abu Maaz, Ghulam Mohammed Shah alias Abu Qasim and Farooq Ahmed. Three AK-47 rifles, four magazines, 120 rounds, one Chinese grenade, two mobile telephones, five letter heads of the LeT outfit and some incriminating documents were recovered from their possession. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Doda range) Farooq Khan said that the arrests were made after SFs had launched a search operation in Pattimal after securing specific input about the movement of three LeT militants, who had been operating in the Dachan, Pattimal and Palmar areas for the last three years.
October 11-12: Two suicide bombers were killed and three paramilitary personnel wounded in a suicide attack on a CRPF camp near the Dal Lake in capital Srinagar. The two heavily armed suicide militants entered into the makeshift battalion headquarters of the CRPF on October 11. Police and CRPF personnel on October 12 killed the two suicide bombers. The spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, in a satellite telephonic conversation from Pakistan claimed that fidayeen (suicide squad) of his group had stormed the camp.
October 10: A ‘battalion commander’ of the LeT outfit, identified as Sabzar Ahmed Mir a.k.a. Muntazim, was killed in an encounter at Chak Cholan in the Pulwama district.
October 8: The police and Rashtriya Rifles personnel shot dead a militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Usman (junior), at Gangabug forest in Kupwara district.
October 5-6: Security forces killed Abu Furqan, LeT ‘district commander’ for Anantnag, during an encounter at Chitragam village in the Shopian district on October 5. The gun battle ended with the death of one soldier on October 6.
October 5: Jammu and Kashmir Police sources stated that Mohammed. Sadik alias Sibly, a person belonging to Thoubal district, is a cadre of the LeT outfit. He was arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police along with an AK rifle on August 30, 2007. He had reportedly gone from Manipur to Jammu and Kashmir to pursue Islamic studies and become a Moulvi (Islamic cleric). Later he joined the LeT outfit.
October 4: In an encounter between militants of the LeT and SFs at Gamroo in the Bandipora district, two militants, identified as ‘divisional commander’ Moosa alias Abu Wafa and ‘chief operational commander’ Qasim Bhatti, and a Junior Commissioned Officer of the Army, Subash, were killed. Moosa had engineered most of the attacks on Police and civilian targets in capital Srinagar in the last one year. He had also been instrumental in a number of grenade attacks and IED blasts in the Bandipora, Ganderbal and Srinagar districts.
October 2: Nine LeT militants, including the outfit’s ‘divisional commander’ of the Tangmarg-Beerwah belt, Bilal Afghani alias Chhota Bilal, and two of his close associates, Mohammad Sultan Bhat alias Rayees Khan and Janbaz Afghani, were killed during an encounter between militants and SFs in the Tangmarg-Beerwah belt of Baramulla district. One officer of the Rashtriya Rifles (34 Battalion), Major K. P. Vinay was killed on the spot, while another one, identified as Major Dinesh Raghuraman, who was among five other soldiers injured, died of his injuries later. "They offered tough resistance for all 38 hours of the gun battle. They are all unidentified but we believe, they are all Pakistani cadres of Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]," informed Commander of Sector 12 of Rashtriya Rifles, Brigadier, Kuldip Singh. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, confirmed in a satellite telephonic conversation from Pakistan that nine militants of his outfit were killed in the 38-hour-long gun-battle in Tangmarg. He claimed that the militants killed 12 soldiers, including two Majors, and wounded 15 others.
October 1: Doda police arrested three fresh recruits of the LeT outfit from Doda. These youths had been lured into militancy by a local LeT activist, Bashir Ahmed Ganaie. Police also arrested four motivators of militants from Doda. They were motivating youths to join LeT and HM outfits. Police also rescued eight youths from captivity of the militants.
September 28: Unconfirmed reports indicated that three SF personnel were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast triggered by the militants at Devbagh in the Budgam district. LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed that seven soldiers were killed.
September 27: SF personnel rescued six teenagers from the custody of militants in the Patnazi area of Doda district. They had been kidnapped on September 17 by LeT militants for taking them across the Line of Control for arms training.

Security forces arrested two militants of the LeT as soon as they infiltrated into Indian territory from village Damoi Kas in the Poonch district along with a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
September 26: Troops killed two LeT militants, identified as Abdul Rasheed and Liaquat Ali alias Furqan, at Gool in the Ramban district.
September 25: At least two LeT militants and a soldier, Varinder Kumar Sharma, were killed during an encounter that ensued after security forces launched a search operation at Khewri in the Rajouri district.

Abu Kasha alias Tango 9, a LeT ‘area commander’ for Rajouri district, was shot dead by the SFs at Sanyara Mohalla in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

Two more LeT cadres, identified as Gazi Ahmed Mir and Abdur Rehman Sani alias Hanzla of Pakistan, were killed by the troops at Shopian in the Pulwama district.
September 24: A top militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Israr, and a Special Police Officer, Shah Hussain, were killed in an encounter at Sanyara Mohalla in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
September 23: One suspected Pakistani cadre of the LeT outfit was killed by SF personnel at Shiva village in the Sopore area of Baramula district.
September 20: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the LeT, called for intensification of "jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan" to "strengthen Pakistan's Defence."
September 19: Three SF personnel, including one identified as Shri Kumar, were killed and 20 others injured when terrorists ambushed a security convoy along Srinagar-Leh road at Gunwani-Gund in Sonamarg of Srinagar district. Three army buses were also damaged in the attack. Terrorists reportedly attacked with grenades and later opened fire with automatic weapons. Meanwhile, the LeT outfit claimed responsibility for the attack.
September 18: Two LeT militants, including ‘section commander’ Shamsher Khan alias Rezwan, a Pakistani national, and his accomplice, Aijaz alias Bhai alias Shamsher, were killed while five SF personnel, including a Major, sustained injuries in a day-long gun battle at village Chinot in the Bhadarwah tehsil (administrative division) of Doda district.
September 17: One Pakistani cadre of the LeT, identified as Abu Azad alias Gafari, was shot dead by SF personnel at village Gundha under Budhal police station in the Rajouri district. One of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.

One LeT cadre, Nisar Ahmed Dar alias Saajid, was arrested from an unspecified place under Sopore police station in the Baramulla district. Following his interrogation, three over ground workers, identified as Abdul Hameed Shah alias Hassan, Mushtaq Ahmed Changa alias Shahid and Muzaffar Ahmed Saboon alias Zubair, were arrested.
September 16: Suspected LeT militants opened fire on a security convoy at Spurnag in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. The convoy of the Rashtriya Rifles was on its way to a forward area from Baramulla. No fatalities were reported.

In the Sopore area of Baramulla district, security forces and the LeT militants exchanged fire in the Model Town area. Superintendent of Police, Imtiyaz Hussain said that the raid was conducted following information on two LeT militants, Saifullah and Abu Zarrar, who had laid an ambush and were likely to attack a military convoy. In the exchange of fire, Abu Zarrar sustained injuries but both the militants managed to escape leaving behind a mobile phone. Official sources said there were no fatalities on the security force side.
September 14: A Pakistani cadre of the LeT, Abu Mursad, was killed by SFs at Tujjar Sharif village near Sopore in the Baramulla district. Another terrorist, who sustained injuries, managed to escape from the incident site.
September 13: Four LeT terrorists, including one ‘district commander’ Lal Din Gujjar, were shot dead by SF personnel during an encounter at Trinnar Nala area of Kishtwar district. Three others were identified as Umar Din, Kasih and Ghulam Qadir.

Confirming the death penalty awarded to Pakistani LeT militant Mohammed Ashfaq in the seven-year-old Red Fort attack case, the Delhi High Court said that terrorists, who have no value for human lives, deserved the capital punishment. The court, however, acquitted six other persons, including the Srinagar-based father-and-son duo Nazir Ahmed Qasid and Farooq Ahmed Qasid, who were sentenced to life imprisonment, and Ashfaq’s Indian wife Rehamana Yosuf Farooqui. She was given a seven-year jail term. Ashfaq and five other LeT militants, on the night of December 22, 2000, had sneaked into the Red Fort premises and opened indiscriminate firing killing three persons, including two Army personnel.
September 12: Police in the capital Srinagar claimed to have foiled a suicide attack with the arrest of three LeT militants. Mohammad Maqbool Mir alias Shaheen, Ishfaq Ahmad Fazili alias Khand Peer and Ishtiyaq Ahmad Rather alias Billa were arrested from the Karan Nagar locality where one of them had acquired a house on rent. The Superintendent of Police (Special Operations Group) stated that they were planning to carry out a suicide attack on a Police or paramilitary target in the capital city.
September 10: At least one soldier, Pawan Kumar, is reported to have died in a gunfight with militants in the Rajwar area of Kupwara district. Spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed that five soldiers, including an officer, were killed and eight more were injured in the attack. He claimed that militants of the LeT, Al-Badr and JeM had already occupied a position usually held by troops and launched the attack when a column of army was on way to launch an operation.

Two armed LeT militants, Imtiyaz Hussain and Niaz Ahmed, and accompanied by their local sympathisers intruded into the house of Mohammed Amin at Tanta in the Doda district and reportedly assaulted Amin and his daughter. Even as police personnel from the nearby post rushed to the spot and engaged the militants in an encounter, they managed to escape.

Police arrested three LeT militants, who had recently been recruited into the outfit and given arms training in Sopore (Baramulla district), from village Cheera under the jurisdiction of Thathri police station in Doda district. Their recruiting agent, identified as Akhter Hussain, was also apprehended. The arrested militants were identified as Gulshan Ahmed Magrey, Manzoor Ahmed Wani and Nissar Ahmed Parrey, all residents of village Tanta.
September 9: Four suspected foreign militants of the LeT outfit were shot dead by SF personnel and two others escaped after they managed to sneak from across the LoC into the Machil Sector of Kupwara district.

Tanweer Ahmad, a locally trained LeT militant, was arrested from the Sogam area in Kupwara district.

September 4: A LeT militant, Khursheed Ahmed, who was injured in an encounter with the SFs at Krawa forests in the Ramban district on September 2, died in the forests and his body was recovered on September 4.
September 3: A soldier of the Territorial Army was wounded when suspected militants triggered an IED blast inside the shop of Army contractor Ghulam Mohiuddin at Bumhama in the periphery of Kupwara town. Abdullah Ghaznavi, spokesperson of the LeT, claimed responsibility for the attack.
September 2: One LeT militant, Asif Ali Sheikh alias Soba, was shot dead by SF personnel at Gund Adaikot in the Ramban district.

Two LeT cadres, Naseer Ahmed Beig alias Raju Beig and Mukhtiar Ahmed, while taking Hawala money worth INR 300000 for their ‘commander’, Ashiq Hussain, were arrested from Passari forest area under Bhaderwah police station in the Doda district. They were working as over-ground workers for the outfit and used to shift Hawala money and arms for the militants.

The Hyderabad Police filed a new FIR charging 15 persons for their involvement in the August 25 twin blasts in the city. All of them were booked under the Explosives Act and for conspiring to carry out bomb attacks. Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said that only four of the 15 suspects are in police custody. HuJI-BD ‘commander’ Shahid Bilal is among the 11 who are out of the police custody. The new FIR is largely based on the revelations of Sameer Sheikh alias Nayeem, an alleged LeT operative arrested on the Bangladesh border in West Bengal on April 1, 2007. He is also an accused in the Mumbai train blasts case. Nayeem reportedly told investigators that he transported intruders and 10 kilograms of RDX from Bangladesh to Mumbai and Hyderabad over the 18 months period prior to his arrest.
September 1: Roshan Din alias Abu Darda, an ‘area commander’ of the LeT was killed by Reasi police and army at Nakka Pathri in the Gulabgarh area of Udhampur district.. Abu Darda was active since 2000 and was involved in a number of militant activities in Gool-Gulabgarh-Mahore belt.
August 30: One LeT militant hailing from Manipur, Mohammed Sadeeq, was arrested from the Dudu-Basantgarh area of Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on an unspecified date. "Mohd Sadeeq, a resident of Foibal in Manipur, was arrested in Dudu-Basantgarh belt of Kathua district last week," said Kuldeep Khoda, the Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir. According to police sources, he is the first Bangladesh-trained militant from the Northeast to be arrested in Jammu and Kashmir. He reportedly attended training camps with al Qaeda operatives in Bangladesh. The report added that Sadeeq was initially picked up for al Qaeda outfit, but was later sent to Jammu and Kashmir along with a group of 10 to 15 militants, as the LeT was facing a shortage of cadres there.
August 28: Police are investigating the connection of two Hyderabad based operatives of the LeT with the HuJI in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad on August 25.
August 23: A LeT militant, identified as Abdul Hafiz a.k.a. Bashir Ahmed Mallah, a resident of Koti in the Doda district who was involved in several killings, surrendered before the police. Senior Superintendent of Police of Doda, Manohar Singh, said that Bashir had joined militancy in 2003 and was active in Doda and adjoining Bharat, Kulhand, Koti and Dessa areas.
August 20: Two militants of the LeT outfit were killed in a day-long encounter with the SFs at Ganevpora-Hablipora village in the Shopian district.
August 19: A hardcore LeT militant, Abu Bakar, was arrested by police from village Dudu under the jurisdiction of Basantgarh police station in Udhampur district
August 12: A hardcore militant of the LeT, Rehman Saani alias Hanzulla, a Pakistani national, was killed by the SF personnel at Hiff-Khour in the Zainapora area of Pulwama district.

SFs arrested Gafoor Khan, an over-ground worker of the LeT, from the Lolab area of Kupwara district.
August 9: Militants fired upon at a convoy of Army at Sheeri near Baramulla. The troops retaliated and the exchange of fire lasted for about 15 minutes. However, there was no report of any casualty. The LeT has claimed responsibility for the attack.
August 8: SF personnel shot dead an ‘operations commander’ of the LeT, identified as Taib alias Abu Talah, during an encounter at Hanjipora in the Kupwara district. One solider, one police personnel and a civilian, Tariq Ahmad, sustained injuries during the encounter.
August 7: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Manzoor Ahmed, from a hide-out at Cham Dhar in the Doda district.

Security forces arrested a civilian allegedly working for the LeT in the Banihal area of Ramban district.
August 6: A court in New Delhi sentenced two LeT militants, Shahid Ahmed Bakshi, a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, and Farhan Ahmed Ali, a resident of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for possessing arms and explosives. The court had held them guilty on July 30 under various provisions of the erstwhile POTA pertaining to unauthorised possession of arms, ammunition and explosives. Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur also fined the militants INR 50,000 each. The militants were arrested at Nizamuddin in New Delhi on August 30, 2002, with four kilograms of RDX, two detonators and a Chinese-made pistol along with magazine and 15 live cartridges.

Two top LeT militants, including an Afghan national, were shot dead by police in an encounter in the Gandoh area of Doda district. The slain militants were identified as John Mohammed (code name Bilal), a resident of Kunthal and Abu Shakeel Afghani, a foreign mercenary.
August 5: During an encounter that ensued after SFs launched a cordon-and-search operation at Pazipora Chak in the Handwara area of Kupwara district, a LeT terrorist, identified as Abu Talib alias Usama, was killed. However, one of his associates managed to escape from the incident site.
August 2: Two infiltrators were killed by the troops at Sanga in the Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district. Official sources said troops had observed the movement of a group of infiltrators near Hawai Post of Army at Sanga and in the ensuing encounter two infiltrators were killed while the rest of their associates managed to escape. The slain militants were believed to be Pakistanis belonging to the LeT outfit.
July 31-August 1: The Army foiled an infiltration attempt near Ghodetal in the Uri sector of Baramulla district by killing all the eight terrorists. In the gun-battle, Colonel V. Vasant, a Commanding Officer of 9 Maratha Light Infantry, and a soldier, Lance Naik B. S. Ganapat, were also killed and a soldier wounded. Deputy Inspector General of Police (North Kashmir), B. Srinivas, said that the entire eight-member group of LeT infiltrators had been neutralized by the SFs in a 60-hour-long operation.
July 31: Two youths, Jamsheed Ahmed and Shoaib Mohammed, were rescued from the captivity of LeT by the troops in the Bagla Bharat area of Doda district.
July 30: The Doda district police arrested two new recruits of the LeT outfit during a raid conducted at Patnazi. They were identified as Aftab Ahmed and Mohammed Hashim.
July 26: In the first Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack since October 2006, SFs killed both the militants at an encampment on the premises of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre at Zakoora on the outskirts of capital Srinagar. Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, informed that two LeT militants made an unsuccessful attempt to sneak into a formation of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force at the defunct BARC facility at Zakoora. Both the militants, who emerged from a deserted orchard, lobbed hand grenades and opened gunfire on the pillboxes in the rear of the camp. Even as eight soldiers sustained injuries, the troops shot dead both the militants and also recovered two AK-56 rifles and three hand grenades from their possession. He said that one of the slain militants was identified as Feroz Ahmed Khan, a resident of Kangan in the Kashmir valley, and another was believed to be a Pakistani national. A LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed responsibility of the two-and-a-half-hour-long attacks and reportedly identified the slain militants as Feroz Khan alias Abu Muslim and a "guest militant" Abu Ma'az.
July 25: More than a dozen Muslims, including at least one Pakistani and several US citizens of Pakistani-origin, have been sentenced to imprisonment for their association with the Pakistan-based LeT and for conspiracy to wage jihad against India. Although one of the convicts, 32-year old Sabri Benkahla, of Falls Church, Virginia, became a state witness, he too was sentenced this week to 121 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay a $17,500 fine. He was found guilty of perjury before the grand jury and of making false official statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including his denial of involvement with an overseas jihad training camp in 1999, as well as his asserted lack of knowledge about individuals with whom he was in contact. Most of the convicts attended the Dar al Arqam Islamic Centre in Falls Church, Virginia. In June 2003, Benkahla and 10 others were indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria for conspiring to attack Indian troops in Kashmir and the Russians in Chechnya in the course of training for jihad in Virginia and Pakistan. Among the defendants, Masaud Khan, Seifullah Chapman, Randall Royer, Ibrahim Al-Hamdi, Muhammed Aatique, Yong Kwon, and Khwaja Hasan, were alleged to have attended jihad training camps operated by the LeT in 2000 and 2001. In September 2003, Khan and Royer were charged with conspiring to wage war against the United States, aid the Taliban, aid al Qaeda, and Khan, Royer, Chapman, and Hammad Abdur-Raheem were charged with providing assistance to the LeT.
July 23: The Doda district police neutralized a LeT hideout at Seoj Dhar under the jurisdiction of Bhadarwah police station and recovered five kilograms of RDX, two under barrel grenade launchers, nine hand grenades, 300 AK rounds, 12 SLR rounds, four AK magazines, one radio set, three detonators, ration items and accessories of explosive devices. However, no arrests were made from the hideout.
July 23: Official sources said a group of LeT militants abducted and later killed Javid Iqbal, a cadre of the HM, from Kither Bonjwa in the Gandoh area of Doda district. According to sources, Iqbal had surrendered before the security forces about two years back. However, he rejoined the HM group about six months back.
July 22: A LeT militant, identified as Mohammed Shaffi, was killed in an encounter with the SFs at village Sangan in the Banihal area of Ramban district. However, one of his associates managed to escape from the encounter site.
July 18: Mohammad Khalid-ur-Rahman, a Pakistani national who played a core role in organising the LeT’s pan-India terror network, was killed in a shootout with police and troops near Bhaderwah in the Doda district. A woman was also killed when the militant lobbed grenade on a house to take refuge there.
July 17: Two Army soldiers, identified as Hari Kishore and P.T. Vasant, were killed and eight others injured when a group of five Pakistani cadres of the LeT ambushed a convoy of Rashtriya Rifles in the Belni forests - between Tota Gali and Bhatta Durian area – of Surankote tehsil in the Poonch district. The ambush followed a heavy exchange of gun fighting between troops and militants for two hours but the militants, who had taken position atop the hills, managed to escape.

VDC members of village Bagiyana killed another LeT terrorist. A defence spokesman said that VDC members noticed movement of a terrorist in the Bagiyana nullah. When the militant was challenged, he opened fire which was retaliated by the VDC members. In the ensuing fire fight, the terrorist, identified as Ghulam Mohammad, was killed.
July 16: Doda police arrested three hardcore over-ground workers of the LeT outfit, including two Government employees. They were identified as Ghulam Rasool alias Doctor, Rayees Ahmed Natnoo and Tariq Saleem.
July 7: A Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Abu Haider Zarar, operating in the Surankote area for last three years, was killed inside a house while his two body-guards escaped during an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles at village Dandian in the Bafliaz area of Surankote tehsil in Poonch district.

Police claimed to have arrested eight militants of the LeT and Tehreeh-ul-Mujahideen, who were planning to carry out grenade attacks in Srinagar, from the Tral area Pulwama district.
July 6: The Doda district police cracked a network of Hawala operators with the arrest of three activists of LeT and recovery of INR 1.97 lakh cash besides explosive material from their possession. The three were identified as Bashir Ahmad Banday alias Billal, Jamal Din Mughal and Fareed Ahmed Chopan.
July 1: July 1: All the three top LeT terrorists, held up in a house since June 30-night at Dalli Nowpora in the Kulhand area of Doda district, were killed by the SF personnel. A police constable, Abdul Rashid, was killed in the operation while five others sustained injuries. Official sources said the body of one of the slain terrorists was recovered from the incident site while two others were buried in debris of the house.
June 29: SFs managed to ascertain the hideout of two of the five terrorists involved in the attack June 28 attack and killed both the Pakistani cadres of the LeT in a day-long encounter in the Handwara town of Kupwara district. Two soldiers also sustained injuries.
June 28: Three terrorists of the LeT were killed in an encounter with the security force personnel at Harpora Salkoot village near the Army's headquarters of 28-Infantry Division in the Kupwara district. A woman, identified as Fehmeeda, is reported to have died in the crossfire. He disclosed that the militants, with a clear intention of launching a suicide attack on the Army formation, were wearing combat uniform, including military shoes and bullet proof-like vests.

One soldier was killed and at least 16 soldiers and a sixteen-year old boy, Zahid Manzoor Bhat, were wounded when militants ambushed a convoy of the Army near Chotipora-Marhatgam in Pulwama district using AK-56 rifles and rocket launchers. Spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed over telephone that two of the targeted vehicles were destroyed by two militants of his group.

Two LeT militants, identified as Abdul Rahim Malla alias V5 and Mohamed Shafi Malla, were arrested during a search operation by the troops in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla district.
June 26: Two SF personnel and a militant of the LeT, Ishtiyaq Ahmad Bhat, outfit were killed in an encounter at Gamroo in the Bandipora district. The house of Ghulam Mohammad Shah, where the militants had allegedly taken refuge, was damaged in the incident.
June 25: Two civilians, Nissar Ahmed and Riyaz Ahmed, were killed and 14 others, including five women, sustained injuries when a suspected LeT militant lobbed a grenade in a crowded area at Old Bus Stand in the Doda town. The blast occurred in front of Hotel Tak Residence where a large number of people had gathered for shopping and other purposes. Sources said eye-witness accounts helped police to identity the militant involved in the incident. He is reportedly a resident of Doda and belonged to the Fareed Sheikh group of the LeT.
June 24: Five cadres of the LeT and one Army personnel were killed and two soldiers wounded in an encounter which ensued after SF personnel challenged a group of infiltrators at Ismail Di Dori in the Karnah sector of Kupwara district. Havildar Chuni Lal, a resident of Doda district, who died in the encounter, had received the Vir Chakra in recognition of his gallantry in the Kargil War of 1999.

10 personnel of the Special Operations Group of the Police were wounded in an IED blast at Maloora on the Srinagar-Sumbal Road. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed that three soldiers died and 10 others sustained injuries in the IED blast that was caused by militants of his organisation.
June 22: Mohammadd Ashraf Sheikh Moulvi, a militant of the LeT, was arrested at Rampora in the Kulgam district.
June 21: An activist of the LeT, identified as Arif Hussain Naikoo, was arrested from Chakoora village in the Pulwama district.
June 18: Security forces killed three militants of the LeT, including ‘divisional commander’ Abu Furqaan, in the Beerwah area of Budgam district. The other two were identified as Amaar and Bilal Ahmed Dar alias Saifullah.

About 100 Pakistanis are being trained exclusively as Fidayeen (suicide squad) in three training camps of the LeT in Pakistan, according to disclosures made by two Pakistani militants recently arrested on the Line of Control. They are reportedly being trained to target the political leadership in Jammu and Kashmir, the militants have said during their questioning. The disclosures were made by Pakistani militants identified as Mohammed Yaseen Jat, a resident of Sialkot in the Punjab province, and Akhter-ul-Islam, who were arrested by Army at Lilum Vilgam in the Handwara area of Kupwara district. According to sources, the militants have disclosed that the Fidayeen were being given special training at Akas training camp at Muzaffarabad; LeT’s base camp at Kotli and Lashkar Point, a new training camp created for Fidayeen.
June 17: A suspected LeT operative and an accused in the May 18-bomb blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Sheikh Abdul Nayeem alias Sameer, briefly escaped from police custody, before being re-arrested two kilometers away after an hour’s chase.

An over-ground worker of the LeT, Zahoor Ahmad Wani, was arrested by the Rashtriya Rifles personnel from Lalpura village in the Kupwara district.
June 16: Two college students, one undergoing Graduation degree in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and another studying Bachelor in Computer Applications from Kawa Institute of Management and Technology, Jammu, have turned out to be top militants of LeT outfit and were arrested by police from Channi Himmat along with a consignment of explosives and hawala money. Police sources said that Raees Hayat Khan alias Aijaz and Mohd Taj, both residents of Chak Banola in the Poonch district, had been assigned the task of striking at Amarnath pilgrimage base camp in Jammu and lob grenades on the first batch of pilgrims scheduled to take off on June 30.
June 15: Two persons were killed nine others sustained injuries in an ambush by terrorists near the crowded Iqbal Market in the Sopore town of Baramulla district. Even as the troops retaliated, both the terrorists managed to escape from the incident site. Officials said that the duo, identified as Abu Zarrar and Abu Qittal, were believed to be members of a lately infiltrated group of the LeT, which is reported to have claimed responsibility for the ambush.

The Superintendent of Police (Operations) in Srinagar, Mohammad Irshad, informed that police arrested a Srinagar-based militant Abu Faisal who disclosed that a suicide squad has sneaked into the capital city to carry out an attack. Subsequently, police conducted search operations in the Rajbagh-Nowgam area and killed two militants, identified as Abu Tufail and Abu Hafiz, both Pakistani cadres of the LeT. However one wanted militant Obaid alias Shahid was able to flee in an injured condition.
June 14: SFs arrested two Pakistani militants of the LeT while making an attempt to kill Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Union Tourism Minister, Ambika Soni, during their visit to the under-construction complex of the Institute of Hotel Management, close to Police Station Rajbagh in the capital Srinagar. During interrogation, the duo reportedly revealed that they had been tasked to carry out a suicide attack on Azad and Soni. They revealed that a quantity of their arms and ammunition, as also their commanders, were in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.
June 12: Three LeT terrorists and three soldiers were killed in a gun-battle in the Gagal forest area of Kupwara district. Five SF personnel also sustained injuries in the incident. One of the militant, according to official sources, had been identified as LeT’s Kupwara "Financial Chief" Abu Moosa, a Pakistani national. Officials informed that Moosa had been continuously operating in Lolab valley since 2002. Three militants of the group managed to escape from the incident site.

A suspected LeT militant was arrested from near the Azadpur Sabzi Mandi in north Delhi. Identified as Mukhtar Ahmed Khan from Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, the militant was carrying about 1.5 kilograms of RDX, a timer and two detonators meant to cause bomb blasts in Delhi at the behest of LeT commander Abu Alqama.
June 11: Angry crowds in PoK set ablaze a hospital set up by the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, set up by Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafeez Mohammed Sayeed, after the outfit’s cadre allegedly killed a boy and injured two others in a land dispute. The crowd set on fire the huge "set up" of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa at Pajgran village near Muzaffarabad, capital of PoK, after a boy was shot dead and two others were wounded, allegedly by people belonging to the outfit. The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in a press release from its headquarters in Lahore, however, said local "land mafia" set fire to its surgical hospital set up to treat the 2005 earthquake victims. Police arrested over a dozen activists of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa, including the one who had allegedly shot dead 17-year old Adnan Shah.
June 10: Police arrested six militants of the LeT’s Abu Umar group. They were reportedly involved in a series of grenade attacks in Bhaderwah and other areas of Doda district. During interrogation, the militants also admitted that they were planning to lob more grenades in Bhaderwah town and outskirts in the next few days.
June 9: In south Kashmir, two CRPF personnel and two civilians were wounded when militants clashed with a CRPF party protecting the railway track in Awantipora-Bijbehara belt. Subsequently, a LeT spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 7: A suspected LeT operative held near the Bangladesh border in April was shown as arrested by police in Hyderabad in connection with the May 18 bomb blast in the city’s Mecca Masjid. Nayeem alias Sameer was earlier in the custody of Mumbai police and was brought here on a transit warrant. He was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. Sameer was one of four suspected LeT cadres held by the BSF near the Bangladesh border in April while they were trying to sneak into West Bengal. Later, he was handed over to Mumbai Police for his alleged involvement in bomb attacks on local trains. During a narco-analysis test, Sameer reportedly told Mumbai Police that he had transported RDX to Hyderabad, officials sources said. This was the second arrest by the Special Investigation Cell of city police which is probing the bomb blast. Earlier on May 25, police arrested Shoaib Jagirdar, a close associate of Sameer, from Jalna in Maharashtra. He is now in judicial remand.
June 6: Police arrested Mohammad Razzik, a LeT militant, from the Cheera area of Doda district. Razzik was reportedly a close associate of LeT 'district Commander' Abu Jindal, a foreign militant currently active in the Kither and Thathri areas.
June 4: SF personnel foiled an infiltration attempt, killing four heavily armed LeT terrorists at Kanga Gali in the Manjakote sector of Rajouri district. One Army personnel, identified as Sumit Dogra, was killed and another, Kuldeep Raj, injured in the abortive infiltration attempt. This was the fifth infiltration attempt which was foiled by Army in the Rajouri and Poonch districts last fortnight.

June 3: Hafiz Muhammad Hamid, brother of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the LeT chief, was deported along with his family from the United States. He is expected to arrive in Pakistan on June 5-morning. Hafiz Hamid was imam (priest) at the Islamic Centre of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts, and had been fighting immigration regulation infringements for the last several months. His other brother, Hafiz Muhammad Masood, is also fighting deportation and is now waiting for the next hearing of a US federal immigration court on October 11, 2007. Hafiz Muhammad Hamid came to the US in 2000 to attend a finance conference organised by the Harvard Programme for Islamic Finance. He stayed on to become the imam of the Worcester mosque. He reportedly worked closely with the Islamic Society of Boston. Before coming to the US, he is believed to have been in charge of the LeT ‘safe house’ at Moon Chowk in Lahore, a "facility" that no longer exists.
June 1: Two soldiers died and 16 others inured in an encounter with two suicide squad (Fidayeen) cadres of the LeT follwing their attack on the Army convoy as well as STC of the J&K Police at Sheeri in the Baramulla district. Both the terrorists were also killed in the gun-battle. LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed that the incident at Sheeri was his group’s Fidayeen attack. He claimed that five police personnel and six soldiers of the army were killed and 15 more injured and confirmed that both the suicide squad cadres were killed in the operation.
May 31: Two LeT cadres, Shahid alias Latta and Saleem Bhat, who were involved in several killings and other subversive activities, were shot dead by police at Asthanmarg in the Gool area of Ramban district.
May 30: Terrorists shot dead a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Shailey Singh, inside the house of a State Forest Corporation employeeat Udrana in the Doda district and escaped. However, a LeT ‘divisional commander’, Abu Umar, was reportedly trapped by police in a house. Sources said the terrorists had sheltered in the house belonging to Shabir Ahmed alias Billa alias Sabba, and his brother Shakoor Ahmed alias Shanku at Udrana, who were later arrested.

Foiling another infiltration attempt, SFs shot dead three terrorists, believed to be foreign mercenaries of the LeT outfit, during an encounter at Sabra Gali on the LoC in the Balakote sector of Poonch district. Sources said infiltration attempts have gradually increased since April 2007 with reports indicating that the number of infiltrators has already surpassed 120.

A Pakistani militant of the LeT, identified as Sulaiman, is reported to have died in an encounter with SF personnel in the Bandipora area of Baramulla district.
May 29: The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (also known as Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) plans to resume publication of its entire catalogue of seven publications with new names over fears that the government may impose a possible ban on the existing names. The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa was earlier outlawed in January 2001 when it operated under the name of the LeT. Currently, it publishes the weeklies Ghazwa, Zarb-e-Taiba and Taibaat along with the monthlies Adawa and Babul Islam in Urdu. It also publishes the monthlies Voice of Islam and Al-Ribaat in English and Arabic, respectively. These publications propagate jihad and highlight the nationwide activities of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa. Sources said that the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa would rename its publications following a decision made during a recent meeting chaired by the groups’ chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. However, Yahya Mujahid, the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa spokesman, did not confirm such plans.
May 23: A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Yougal Manhas, and his driver, Zahoor Ahmed, were injured when a terrorist fired from his AK-56 rifle directly targeting Manhas in his police vehicle, just outside his office, in the Mendhar town of Poonch district. The terrorist later escaped from the incident site, a crowded place adjacent to the police station. An Al-Mansooran (a front for the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]) spokesman, Amir Mir, rang up Daily Excelsior from PoK to claim responsibility for the attack. He said that it was a Fidayeen (suicide squad) attack and was executed by two cadres of his groups. Police, however, maintained that only one terrorist was involved in the attack, adding that it was not a suicide attack as the terrorist committed action for few seconds and fled.
May 16: SFs shot dead a 'divisional commander' of the LeT, Abu Saifullah, a Pakistani, in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district. One of his associates, reportedly his body-guard, managed to escape.
May 15: SF personnel killed two LeT militants at Waterhal in the Budgam district.
May 14: A LeT cadre, identified as Tariq Hussain Wani alias Abu Hamza, was shot dead by the police in an encounter at Panchaal in the Doda district.

Another militant of the LeT was killed in an encounter with the security force personnel in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.

A letter, purportedly written by a LeT militant, threatening to kill the President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and the Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, was recovered from a cinema hall at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. The letter, written by Karim Ansari, claiming to be a LeT militant, threatened to "eliminate soon Gandhi and Kalam and to blow up on May 24 Meerut Railway Station, Apsara Cinema and several other cinemas in the city besides the Delhi Railway Station, India Gate and Palampur (IGIA) Airport."
May 9: Three Pakistani cadres of the LeT group are reported to have died during an encounter with the SFs at Dardharey village in the Kupwara district. One Kashmiri militant, namely Bilal Ahmed Mir, and a guide, identified as Abdul Khaliq, were arrested from the incident site.
May 8: The Indian government said that Pakistan-based LeT has been building up a women cadre by imparting arms training to them at its camps in Pakistan. Available reports suggest that LeT is running training camps in Pakistan and PoK for imparting arms training to its women cadre. Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, in a written answer in the Parliament said there was continued involvement of Pakistan and Pakistan-based terrorist outfits like the LeT, JeM and HM in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India. "They were using and leveraging the existing infrastructure of terror in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and other parts of Pakistan," he said.

Two LeT terrorists and one soldier were killed at Chowgal in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.
May 7: Police arrested a LeT militant, identified as Ishfaq Ahmed Ganai, from Sogam village in the Kupwara district.
May 6: Pakistan-based terrorist groups, particularly the LeT and JeM, are increasingly depending on "surrogate bases" in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Middle East for movement of trained cadres and finances for their operations, indicated the Union Home Ministry. A home ministry document, based on intelligence inputs, said the Bangladesh-based HuJI, linked to the LeT and JeM, is recruiting Indian youths, sending them to Pakistan for training and re-inducting them via Bangladesh to carry out terrorist attacks. "This is evident from the Mumbai local train serial bomb blasts in which 11 Pakistanis infiltrated through the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar, Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal and Indo-Pakistan