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Pak soldier among foreign mercenaries
killed in J&K

The Pakistan army's involvement in militancy in Kashmir came to the fore again with one of the two foreign mercenaries killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday night being identified as a Pak army regular, an army spokesman said on Monday.

Abul Jindal, a Pakistani soldier with identity card number 79150-BOX, and self-styled battalion commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) Abu Talib, a resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, were killed in a gun battle with security forces at Khimsar Behak on Sunday night, the spokesman said.

The encounter broke out when a joint search party of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the J&K police and army was fired upon by the duo, he said, adding in the ensuing encounter the two foreign mercenaries were killed.

Two AK rifles, four magazines and 110 rounds were recovered from the slain militants.

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