Which commander of the same Lashkar-e-Taiba group was neutralised at Dachigam?

The correct answer is Budgam. The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district. Options A, C and D name other districts of the union territory and are wrong, though each has seen counter-terrorism operations at other times, which is exactly why they make plausible distractors. Security forces had been pursuing Musa for a long stretch, and a plan involving every stakeholder was put together once technical and human intelligence reached them about where he was and how he was moving. The encounter was not a standalone action but part of a long-sustained effort named Operation Sheruwali, which had begun in May 2026 and was still running when Musa was neutralised.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part. Option A, Operation Mahadev, is wrong because that was the operation in which another commander of the same group, Suleman, was neutralised on 28 July 2025. Option B, Operation Asdhar, is wrong for a similar reason: Yasir was neutralised in it on 4 September 2026. Option D is wrong because no such name belongs to this sequence. Keeping the three names tied to the right commanders is the trick with this question, and the fourth member of the group, Junaid Bhat, was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024. Together these four had been active in the union territory since 2022.

The correct answer is four. With Musa gone, the entire group of four senior commanders of the outfit who had been operating in the union territory since 2022 has been neutralised. Option A is wrong and option B is the likelier trap, since three of the four had already been neutralised before this encounter, in separate actions against Junaid Bhat, Suleman and Yasir; Musa was the fourth and last. Option D is wrong because no such number is attached to this group. The group was held responsible for a series of attacks over four years, among them the Kandi attack of May 2023, the Halan attack of August 2023, the DKG attack of December 2023, the Shahsitar attack of May 2024, the Shiv Khori attack of June 2024 and the Baisaran attack of April 2025.

The correct answer is an Iranian dhow operated by five Pakistani nationals. The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs. Option C is the sharpest trap, because it simply swaps the two nationalities: the vessel was Iranian and the men on board were Pakistani, not the other way round. Option A changes both the type of boat and the nationality of the crew; a trawler is a fishing vessel and no Indian nationals were reported among those arrested. Option D describes a container ship with a crew of twelve, which does not match a dhow, the small wooden-hulled craft traditionally used in the Arabian Sea and the type most often found on this smuggling route.

The correct answer is about 526 kg of high-grade narcotics, valued at more than Rs 3,000 crore. The consignment included heroin and methamphetamine, which is why the value per kilogram is so high. Option A keeps the correct value but scrambles the digits of the weight, a common trap where 526 becomes 256; the two numbers use the same digits in a different order. Option C keeps the correct weight but cuts the value by a factor of ten, turning thousands of crore into hundreds. Option D inflates both figures. The safe way to hold this is to remember the pair together, the weight in kilograms and the value in crore, because a question usually alters only one of the two and leaves the other correct to make the wrong option look familiar.