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Punjab Police foil major terror plot backed by Pakistan’s ISI

Chandigarh, July 9 (UNI) In a significant breakthrough, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police has successfully thwarted a major terror conspiracy linked to Harwinder Rinda, a key Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative currently based in Pakistan and reportedly backed by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav wrote: “Acting swiftly on human intelligence, AGTF teams traced and recovered a large cache of terrorist hardware, including two AK-47 rifles with 16 live cartridges, two magazines, and two P-86 hand grenades from a forest area in #Gurdaspur, before it could reach Harwinder @ Rinda’s associates.”
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