Union home ministry today had asked for a report from the security agencies about the earlier reports that Taliban groups may have entered into the Kashmir valley of which the Army denied reports to this effect.

This move comes from the home ministry after a wireless intercept reportedly suggested that a group of about 20 militants who are said to be Taliban had been fighting the Army in Gurez sector of the Northern part of Kashmir.

The Army headquarters informed the Indian government about the intermittent gunfight in the sector where two of the group had been gunned down.

Information comes that the bodies retrieved from the sector after the encounter showed some features similar to those belonging to North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

After this the security agencies had been closely monitoring the situation and have also suggested the presence of Taliban in North Kashmir and panic messages from Lashker cadres asking them to go back.

Where as in Srinagar the news comes that the army had maintained that there were no reports about the Taliban militants presence in the valley.