Pakharpora new entry road for military into militants populated Tora Bora

Srinagar Dec 04: Tora Bora, a region densely populated with foreign militants recently witnessed successful encounter by military in which four militants were killed in Budgam's Pakharpora area.

The area is now being seen as the security forces' maiden entry into an area popularly known as 'Tora Bora'.

The militants are often in hiding in the area's deep forests, a maze not very different from the labyrinth of caves of Taliban-controlled Tora Bora in northern Afghanistan, they said.

The Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir police and Army carried out its first operation in this region on Thursday, killing the four terrorists.

In April this year, two militants were killed at Hyat Pura, 8km from Pakharpora, but that officials said was a chance encounter as the incident followed a routine check.