Srinagar, April 8 -- Jammu-Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday terminated the services of twoJammu and Kashmirgovernment employees for their alleged links with terror outfits, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen, official sources said.

The dismissals were carried out under Article 311(2)(c) of the Constitution as part of the administration's "zero-tolerance to terror" policy, aimed at rooting out militant elements from government institutions.

Sinha had recently observed that he will not rest until "the last thread of the terror cancer is torn from the body of government machinery". He had also vowed that security agencies would "completely, decisively and permanently end the scourge of terrorism".

One of those dis...