Jammu, April 7 -- In a major breakthrough in the ongoing anti-terror operations, Jammu and Kashmir Police have dismantled a key Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) network with the arrest of a notorious operative, Abdullah alias Abu Hureira, who had managed to remain embedded in the region for over a decade.

Investigators say one of the most striking aspects of Hureira's long concealment was his strategic integration into local society through marriage. According to officials, after infiltrating into India around 2011, Hureira cultivated close links with a local Jamaat-e-Islami functionary in the Srinagar outskirts and eventually married his daughter. This alliance not only provided him with social legitimacy but also helped him evade su...