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| LeT calls truce in Kishtwar | | | Early Times report
Jammu, Feb 5: Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has announced momentary ceasefire against security forces in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, according to some posters pasted in the hilly town, about 250 kms northwest from here.
Written in Urdu on the letterhead of ''Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Toiba Jammu and Kashmir'' with LeT's seal and signed by self-styled 'district commander', the outfit said it would focus on identifying the informers of the security forces.
Referring to the killings of LeT's two top militants in an encounter by security forces on Wednesday, the outfit said it's cadre would temporarily stop fighting Army and police and would focus on ''their spies'' who informed them about the movement of militants.
With the killing of its militants -- namely Nisar Ahmed alias Abu Maz and Mujahid Nadeem Ahmed alias Abu Akash-Ul-Allah -- the outfit said it would continue 'jehad' in the area.
ASP Kishtwar Sunil Gupta told that police teams were conducting searches in the town to find out locations where the posters were pasted by the militants.
Security forces, particularly Rashtriya Rifles (RR), have adopted a strategy of conducting search operations, based on information generated by its sources, to have encounter with the militants in the area.
''Now militants prefer avoiding contact with the troops,'' Nagrota Corps Commander Lt Gen R Roy had claimed during his last interaction with reporters here. ''It's we (army) who are looking out for them (militants),'' he had said.
Security forces claim that the morale of militants is quite low because several top commanders of their outfits have been killed in encounters.
''Whosoever takes over the leadership of militant outfits becomes the main target of security forces,'' they said.
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