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| Security forces asked to act against Fidayeens being pushed by Pak into J&K | | | early times report
Jammu, Sept 26 : The twin militant attack on police station and the Army camp in Hiranagar and Samba, in which nine people, including four policemen, three army personnel, were killed on Thursday is said to have been carried out by a group of infiltrators who had sneaked in to the Jammu region in recent days.
Official sources said that agencies across the LOC, including the Pak Army, have raised groups of trained youth who were to act as Fidayeens while carrying out subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said that in the last eight months Pakistani troops violated ceasefire on more than 26 occasions by targeting a number of Indian border posts on the LoC and the IB with the sole aim of carving out ingress passage for the militants.
They said that the alert troops foiled most infiltration bids and the killing of seven militants in the forest belts of Kupwara sector is part of the offensive launched by the Indian security forces against the rebels.
According to these sources, troops, guarding the LoC and the IB, and the security forces deployed within the state have been directed to upgrade their security grid so that all the Fidayeens, who had crossed into Jammu and Kashmir in recent weeks, were eliminated.
Instructions have gone to the police authorities to tone up the security bandobast in and around all the police stations and posts in the state in order to prevent militants from repeating Hiranagar type attacks.
In addition to this police and paramilitary forces have been directed to intensify counter insurgency operations but only on specific information so that new hideouts carved out by infiltrators were demolished and arms and ammunition recovered from those hideouts.
One senior Government functionary said that he police authorities have decided to streamline and strengthen patrolling in sensitive areas on the Jammu-Pathankot highway so that fresh batch of infiltrators were not allowed to sneak into civilian areas and into Army and Police camps.
He said that instructions have gone to the Army and the security forces besides several intelligence agencies to upgrade their surveillance system so that movement of militants was regularly monitored allowing ample time to the security forces to prepare for a major operation against them. |
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