A heavily armed Pakistani terrorist was shot dead by an alert ambush party in Pallanwala sector of Akhnoor Tuesday afternoon. According to ground reports, Pakistani terrorist had managed to sneak inside the Indian territory after breaching barbed wire fence,possibly with the help of a sharp cutter.

Though army authorities had not commented on the nature of breach but official statement issued by the Ministry of Defence Spokesman in Jammu clearly suggested that one Pakistani terrorist was eliminated inside the Indian territory in an encounter.

Before establishing the contact  with the terrorist alert jawans have noticed some suspicious movement close to the line of control  and challenged him. In the ensuing  gun fight, Pak terrorist was shot dead around 1.50 p.m, official sources said.

Confirming the intrusion bid along the LoC, Ministry of Defence Spokesman, Lt Col Devendra Anand said, "In an encounter a heavily armed Pakistani terrorist has been eliminated in Akhnoor Sector on own side of the International boundary, at about 1.50 p.m on Tuesday".

Lt Col Anand said, "the ambush party also recovered warlike stores which  included five pistols, ten pistol magazines, 60 bullets of pistol, one AK assault Rifle, two AK Rifle magazine with 234 rounds of ammunition, fifteen hand grenades and twelve fuzes for IEDs. To rule out the presence of more intruders in the area the jawans of the Indian army were kept in a state of high alert in the area.

"The entire area was immediately cordoned off and search and destroy operations were launched to track down the foot prints of other intruders present in the area. MoD Spokesman also claimed, " recovery of huge cache has scuttled the nefarious plans of the terrorists outfit to derail the peace and harmony in the region and disrupt the forthcoming Panchayat Elections in the state".

The timely intercept of the intrusion of the terrorists with the cache of arms, ammunition and other war like stores has thwarted any possible untoward incident, planned by the terrorist during the scheduled elections in the state, he added.