SRINAGAR: A day After of JeM encounter in which three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were killed in an operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama , four soldiers and a Kashmir police constable were also killed, a top police officer said that the entire Jaish leadership in Kashmir Valley has been eliminated.

Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon, Corps Commander of Chinar Corps, Indian Army said that "We were tracking the Jaish-e-Mohammed leadership. We are happy to inform that we eliminated the Jaish leadership in the Valley, which was controlled by Pakistan,", adding that the terrorists had been killed "less than 100 hours" after the Pulwama terror attack, in which over 40 soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber. The officer appealed: "We request all mothers, make your sons who have taken up arms surrender. Anyone who has picked up the gun in Kashmir will be eliminated, unless they surrender."

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It is to be noted that the four soldiers killed in the operation included Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, 34.  The others were Sepoy Hari Singh, 27,  Havaldar Sheo Ram, 37, and Sepoy Ajay Kumar, 27. Head Constable Abdul Rashid Kalas died of his wounds later. The three Jaish terrorists who were killed included Kamran, believed to be a conspirator in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack. Kamran was a Pakistani and a top commander of the Jaish and a key aide of Jaish-e-Mohammed's Pakistan-based chief Masood Azhar.

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Kamran was the handler of Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar and responsible for recruiting, radicalising and training terrorists in the Kashmir Valley. The second terrorist killed was Hilal Ahmed, a local Kashmiri bomb specialist. The third terrorist, Rashid, also called Gazi and Lukaman, was also from Pakistan.