Ahead of the first anniversary of abrogation of Article 370 and reorganisation of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir on August 5, the Pakistan Army has started pushing small groups of heavily armed terrorists inside the Indian territory to scale up violence in the region.
Foiling one such infiltration bid by a group of heavily armed terrorists, alert jawans of the Indian Army on Saturday neutralised at least two terrorists in the Nowgam sector of North Kashmir's Kupwara district.
Besides this, fresh alert has also been sounded all along the line of control in Bhimbergali and Nowshera sectors following intel reports of possible strikes by the Border Action Teams (BAT) of the Pakistan army.
Meanwhile, briefing the media persons about infiltration bid foiled near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Nowgam Sector in Kupwara border district, General-officer-Commanding (GoC), 19 Infantry Division, (Baramulla), Major General Virender Vats Saturday said, “two terrorists were killed in the operation in Nowgam and a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including 1.5 lakh of Indian and Pakistani currency, was recovered from them”.
He said the cache of arms recovered from the slain terrorists comprises 2xAK rifles and 1x Pistol with magazines, ammunition, and some grenades and medical supplies. Major General Virender Vats also warned that Pakistan is trying hard to push more and more terrorists into the Kashmir Valley to disrupt the peace in Jammu & Kashmir.
Sharing his assessment about the possible number of terrorists camping across different launch pads across the line of control, the senior officer said, “Inputs indicate that their launch pads are fully occupied. If we have to guess, it could be anything between 250-300 terrorists
presently occupying the launch pads.''
Exposing the role of the Pakistan army, Major General Virender Vats said, “the terrorists, who were trying to infiltrate into the area by cutting the anti-infiltration fence, were dressed in combat fatigues. They had taken the route through Pakistani forward posts in the area, which clearly indicates that Pakistan is pushing terrorists to this side”.
