India, Sept. 30 -- Actionable intelligence about the presence of most-wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Asif alias Hashim Moosa alias Asif Fauji in Budgam prompted an immediate response from the Army's 15 Chinar Corps, which launched an operation and killed him late Tuesday night.

The operation was based entirely on intelligence inputs. The information was passed on to 15 Chinar Corps, which acted promptly and tracked down Moosa in the general area of Gurweth Kalan in Budgam. He was killed at around 10.30pm on September 29.

Moosa had been on the radar of security agencies for more than a year and a half and was considered a high-value foreign terrorist operating in Jammu and Kashmir. Intelligence inputs had also establishe...