Srinagar, Sept. 6 -- Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday identified the terrorist killed during a high-altitude encounter in Budgam on Friday as Yasir, a Pakistani national and active member of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). A hunt for a second terrorist, Musa, hiding behind huge boulders and natural caves, was on at the encounter site located between 12,000 feet and 15,500 feet in the Pir Panjal range. Yasir was gunned down during Operation Ashdar, a joint mission launched by the Indian Army, J&K Police, and CRPF. Confirming the identity, the police released Yasir's photograph, linking him directly to three major terror incidents across the region in 2024, namely the May 4 ambush on an Indian Air Force convoy in Poonch, the October 20 attack on construction workers in Sonamarg, and the October 24 ambush on an army vehicle in Bota Pathri. An IAF member was killed, and four others were injured when terrorists ambushed a convoy of the force. The attack took place near Shahsitar in the Surankote area around 6.15 pm on May 4, 2024, when the troops were returning to their base at Sanai Top. Seven people, one of them a local doctor, were gunned down by a terrorist group on October 20, 2024, at Gangangir in Sonamarg. On October 24, 2024, Yasir and other terrorists ambushed an Indian Army vehicle in the Bota Pathri area near Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, killing five people -- three soldiers and two porters, officials said. Security forces recovered an AK rifle from the scene. Heavy rain and fog have reduced visibility to as low as five metres in the area, but special forces and additional reinforcements have established a multi-layered cordon across both sides of the mountain range to cut off all potential escape routes. Yasir was part of the terror group led by Junai Ahmed Bhat, a LeT commander, who was shot dead by security forces on December 3, 2024, in Dachigam forest on the outskirts of Srinagar. The officials said Yasir had crossed to the north of the Pir Panjal range to meet Junaid, and since the Boat Pathri encounter, he and Musa, another LeT terrorist, had been hiding in the Yusmarg and Pulwama belts. They returned south of the Pir Panjal range in the Jammu region last year, only to re-enter the Valley earlier this month. The current operation was launched after the army tracked the movement of the terror group advancing from Ashdar Gali in Poonch towards Pakherpora in Pulwama via Yusmarg. Following the input, special forces and Indian Army units laid an ambush along the mountain passes. A tight cordon was established in the area on September 1, and initial contact was made on September 3 at Ashdar Gali, a remote alpine ridge. According to the officials, the encounter site is nearly five hours from the Doodhpathri area of Budgam and is extremely isolated....