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New Delhi: The number of terrorists killed as well as currently active in Jammu & Kashmir have plummeted to a significant low, despite episodes of ambush of security forces in some corners of the Valley, according to data compiled by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)...
Indian security forces killed around 72 terrorists in 2023, compared to 187 in 2022 and 184 in 2021, sources in the CRPF told ThePrint...
Of the 72 eliminated last year, nearly 20 were local terrorists who hailed from the Valley while the remaining were of foreign origin, a source said...
CRPF sources also said that there are approximately 91 active terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir at this point, with foreign terrorists accounting for nearly two-thirds of this number...
Most of these active terrorists in Kashmir are from foreign regions and are affiliated to Lashkar, and they are battle-hardened and well-trained, a second senior security official told ThePrint...
