SRINAGAR: A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist, identified as Junaid Farooq Pandit, was arrested from Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. A Chinese pistol, two magazines and 30 rounds of bullets were among ammunition recovered from him, said DIG (north Kashmir) Suleiman Choudhary while addressing a press conference.Junaid, from Pattan’s Hamre village, had joined the outfit in June last year and was apprehended by a joint team of Army, police and CRPF based on intelligence inputs, Choudhary said. “We had set up checkpoints at different points along the Srinagar-Baramulla highway to interrupt his movement. He was intercepted near Tapper area in Pattan,” he said.“Since the time of his joining, Junaid was active in north Kashmir and for some time, his movement was intercepted in south Kashmir as well,” Choudhary said. There has been a rise in north Kashmiri youths taking up arms and the number of active terrorists in the region has risen to 19, said the DIG.