A gun battle between security forces and terrorists has erupted in the Marwal forest area of Zaloora on the outskirts of Sopore district of Jammu and Kashmir. One policeman has been killed, police said.

The Srinagar police received specific inputs about the presence of terrorists based on which an operation was launched, police added.

The encounter is ongoing and more details are awaited.

The 2003 India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement has virtually become redundant with a whopping 286 incidents of firing and shelling along LoC and IB in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani troops that resulted in death of 26 people, including 14 security personnel, since the surgical strike on terrorist launch pads in PoK.

There have been 186 ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the over 190km International Border (IB) in Jammu frontier, while 104 violations of the agreement took place along the over 500km Line of Control (LoC).


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