Pulwama District  

The security forces, along with the Jammu and Kashmir police, had launched a cordon and search operation overnight at Pinglan village in Pulwama district after a brief exchange of fire. At least two or three militants were believed to be trapped at the site.
 

40 jawans were martyred in Pulwama in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in Kashmir, on February 14. On Thursday, a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide bomber rammed an SUV carrying over 200kg of explosives, into a CRPF bus in Pulwama district.

Around 39 CRPF personnel were killed on Thursday in the deadliest terror attack on security forces in a decade when their convoy was targeted in Pulwama district on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.

Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday, killing at least 40 jawans and injuring 50 civilians. It was the biggest terror attack on the security forces in Kashmir so far.

Security forces on Saturday gunned down two terrorists in an encounter in the Tikken area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.

Sources said the arrested militants were in constant touch with top Hizbul terrorist Adil Bhatt