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Eight soldiers injured in encounter with terrorists in Kishtwar’s high peaks
The Morning Standard
|January 19, 2026
Operations are on with extra forces inducted to reinforce the cordon, backed by coordination with civil admin and security agencies
AS many as eight soldiers of the Army were reportedly injured in an encounter with terrorists in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Sunday.
“Contact was established with terrorists in the general area Son Nar, northeast of Chhatru in Kishtwar district during a deliberate search operation conducted as part of ongoing joint counter-terror operations alongwith Jammu and Kashmir police,” Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps posted on X.
This story is from the January 19, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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