Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, Laskar -E-Toiba founder Hafiz Saeed was present in Pak-occupied Kashmir a few days before the Tuesday's incident at the LoC in which two Indian jawans were killed and the body of one badly mutilated. In reply to a question at a press conference in New Delhi he said according to intelligence information received Hafeez Saeed was present in POK before the incident.

Answering another query, he said the visa agreements between India and Pakistan will stay . He said it will be operationalized as per schedule. The new Visa Agreement signed between New Delhi and Islamabad on 8th of September 2012 was operationalized on 14th of last month.

Presenting the monthly report of his ministry Shinde said, in a major set back to terrorists 14 of them including 8 foreigners were eliminated in joint operation by the Army and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir .