NEW DELHI: The Army has pumped in another 3,000 soldiers into the Jammu region to tackle the surge in terrorism south of the Pir Panjal range, even as General Upendra Dwivedi is also slated to visit the area to review the operational situation on Saturday.
“A brigade headquarters, three infantry battalions and some teams of the elite Para-Special Forces” have been rushed to the Jammu region from outside J&K over the last few days, sources said on Friday.
“These additional soldiers will further intensify the ongoing counter-terror operations in the Jammu region. Induction of more troops from the CAPFs (central armed police forces) is also taking place,” a source said.
The Army is conducting “a series of joint and coordinated operations” with the J&K Police to eliminate “foreign (Pakistan-origin) terrorists” who have sneaked into the Jammu region, which has easier infiltration routes from across the border as compared to the Kashmir Valley.
“The well-trained terrorists, armed with modern weapons like MP-4 assault rifles, steel-core bullets and highly-encrypted communication equipment, come to the bowls in the region for sustenance and attacks and then retreat to the upper reaches in the thickly-forested hilly terrain,” the source said.
As reported by TOI, the lack of requisite “human intelligence” and “signal intelligence” is hampering the counter-terror operations in the Jammu region, with consequent setbacks to the security forces. “The Intelligence Bureau, J&K Police and other agencies involved need to get their act together,” another source said.
The density of Army troops in the region had thinned down over the years due to relative calm as opposed to the Kashmir Valley. The number of soldiers further reduced after the “Uniform Force” (with around 15,000 troops) of the Army’s specialized counterinsurgency Rashtriya Rifles (RR) was shifted to eastern Ladakh after the Chinese incursions there in May 2020.
The Army, of course, still has the RR’s Romeo Force (Rajouri, Poonch Reasi) and Delta Force (Doda, Udhampur and Kishtwar), each of which has around 15,000 troops, as well as regular infantry battalions deployed in the Jammu region. “A few battalions were sent to the Jammu region earlier, and now another 3,000 soldiers have also been moved there,” the source said.
“A brigade headquarters, three infantry battalions and some teams of the elite Para-Special Forces” have been rushed to the Jammu region from outside J&K over the last few days, sources said on Friday.
“These additional soldiers will further intensify the ongoing counter-terror operations in the Jammu region. Induction of more troops from the CAPFs (central armed police forces) is also taking place,” a source said.
The Army is conducting “a series of joint and coordinated operations” with the J&K Police to eliminate “foreign (Pakistan-origin) terrorists” who have sneaked into the Jammu region, which has easier infiltration routes from across the border as compared to the Kashmir Valley.
“The well-trained terrorists, armed with modern weapons like MP-4 assault rifles, steel-core bullets and highly-encrypted communication equipment, come to the bowls in the region for sustenance and attacks and then retreat to the upper reaches in the thickly-forested hilly terrain,” the source said.
As reported by TOI, the lack of requisite “human intelligence” and “signal intelligence” is hampering the counter-terror operations in the Jammu region, with consequent setbacks to the security forces. “The Intelligence Bureau, J&K Police and other agencies involved need to get their act together,” another source said.
The density of Army troops in the region had thinned down over the years due to relative calm as opposed to the Kashmir Valley. The number of soldiers further reduced after the “Uniform Force” (with around 15,000 troops) of the Army’s specialized counterinsurgency Rashtriya Rifles (RR) was shifted to eastern Ladakh after the Chinese incursions there in May 2020.
The Army, of course, still has the RR’s Romeo Force (Rajouri, Poonch Reasi) and Delta Force (Doda, Udhampur and Kishtwar), each of which has around 15,000 troops, as well as regular infantry battalions deployed in the Jammu region. “A few battalions were sent to the Jammu region earlier, and now another 3,000 soldiers have also been moved there,” the source said.