Jammu flares up, frames challenge: reset counter-terror grid, fill ‘vacuum’ | Express Investigations News

ON JUNE 19, two terrorists were killed by the Army in an encounter in Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The two had crossed from Pakistan into Rajouri-Poonch in Jammu and were behind the December 21 killing of four soldiers in an ambush in Thanamandi last year. Their cellphones, a probe revealed, had clips of a T20 cricket match in Abu Dhabi, details that suggested a “level of education not very common and a good family background”, and their use of weapons reflected they were among the “most highly trained…