The Union Government informed the Supreme Court that the protocol on the exchange of prisoners between India and Pakistan was not working. Additional Solicitor General Amarender Sharan told a bench comprising Justices B. N. Agrawal and G. S. Singhvi on February 1 that Pakistan only ‘recycled’ hard-core terrorists and sent them back1.
Meanwhile, in Jammu and Kashmir, as many as three top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists and two policemen were killed as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt on Line of Control in the Poonch district on February 22.