In Jammu and Kashmir, with the arrest of four persons in the border district of Poonch, the State Police has claimed to have busted a sleeper cell of the terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. The arrested persons were actively involved in transportation of weapons, communication equipments and other logistics for the outfit.

According to Superintendent Police Poonch Shamshir Hussain, the force had arrested LeT Over Ground Worker Nissar Ahmed after whose interrogation the module, active in Kalaban, Salwah and Gursai areas of Tehsil Mendhar in Poonch, was busted. On Nissar's disclosures, his other three associates Haq Nawaz, Ashan-ul-Haq and Aftar Ahmed — all of them OGWs of LeT were arrested last night. The module had Pakistan sim cards and was in contact with terrorists in the area, including Haji Hanzalla, the chief operating commander of LeT in PoK.

2 A-K series rifles, 12 magazines, 810 rounds, one Pika gun, 260 rounds of ammunition, one 51 MM mortar shell, 8 landmines, 10 UBGL grenades, 1 UBGL thrower, one wireless set antenna, 19 chargers (W/Set) one satellite SIM card were also seized.