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NEW DELHI: Just likegave him away, leading to his elimination, there are several cases of foreign terrorists exposing themselves to surveillance on account of affairs and sexual misadventures with local Kashmiri girls.“Most foreign terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba come from low-level families in Pakistan’s Punjab. They are often tempted to court the attractive Kashmiri girls from well-off families. Wielding power of the gun and riding on their nuisance value, they either manage to impress local girls or force them into reciprocating their advances,” said an officer of J&K police.Of course, the affairs are fraught with serious security risks. “Their movements are compromised due to their frequent visits to meet their love interests or sexual partners. The police are in a far better position to generate human intelligence regarding their presence or movements,” the officer said.There have been several cases of top terrorists of Pakistan-based terrorist outfits like LeT coming under the radar either due to an identified pattern of movements in a locality where their love interests reside or even a tendency among dumped girlfriends and wives to get even by blowing their cover and alerting the agencies. A LeT commander in Srinagar, Abu Talha, was killed in 1999 after the father of one of the girls he had taken fancy to tipped off the SOG and Intelligence Bureau.Talha was smitten by the daughter of a superintending engineer in state PWD and made this amply clear to him. He asked the engineer to let his daughter, a cultured and highly-educated girl, be with him. The bewildered father did not know what hit him and packed off the girl to her grandparents’ place. A miffed Talha got Dukhtaran-e-Millat to issue a ‘fatwa’ against the girl saying that she wore too much make-up. When the girl still did not show up, Talha threatened her entire family with dire consequences.Luckily, the father of the girl had a relative in SOG, who he decided to confide in. The SOG alerted IB, whose officers then decided to lay the trap for Abu Talha. Somehow, the operation was slightly delayed. A BSF officer got whiff of the intel and decided to take things in his hand. He broke into the Shivpora house where Talha was hiding, and in the encounter that ensued, the LeT commander was eliminated. His killing, needless to say, had a positive effect on militancy in Srinagar.LeT terrorist in Sopore, Abdullah Uni, was killed in 2012 in similar circumstances. He was known to have 4-5 girlfriends. He was a terror in Sopore and a difficult catch for the forces. But his affairs put him on radar of the intelligence agencies, which closely followed his meetings with girlfriends. “Finally, on the basis of a tipoff from one of his girlfriends, he was cornered and killed. His death led to a dip in militancy graph in Sopore, which till then was a major problem area,” said a former J&K police officer.