India, Sept. 18 -- A joint team of security forces led by an elite group of Para Commandos have neutralised two heavily armed Pakistani terrorists affiliated with the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, without causing any collateral damage, in the general area of Brattal, Udhampur on Thursday.

During ongoing searches in the thickly forested area, the security forces also detained a suspected overground worker (OGW). They escorted him for further interrogation to establish any links and whether he was sheltering the foreign terrorists and providing logistics to sustain them inside their hideout.

It was the second major encounter in Udhampur district this year. On February 4, a dreaded commander of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (...