High-tech devices like pre-programmed drones for weapon dropping and offline functions for escape routes could possibly be providing a security cover to a number of particular militant groups active in the Rajouri-Poonch belt, official sources stated on Monday.
Ten troopers have died in twin assaults, the primary on April 20 and the second on May 5, in the Rajouri-Poonch sector. Massive search operations had been ready to kill just one militant and injure one other to this point. However, the injured militant stays untraced regardless of the usage of expertise, together with drones and choppers, sniffer canine and extra troops equivalent to elite para commandos. The anti-militancy operation was carried out on Monday too and no contact was established with any militants in the Kandi Forest space of the Kesari Hills, Kotranka.
Investigating businesses suspect the position of offline functions like ‘Alpine’ being utilized by the militants to feed their mobiles with routes, making it straightforward to attain the safe locations after the assault even when offline.
The photographs of the April 20 assault, the place an Army truck was ambushed between Bhimber Gali-Poonch route, had been flashed from the People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) handles on social media from throughout the Line of Control (LoC), “indicating the easy connectivity with Internet and safe destinations within the Rajouri-Poonch Sector”.
The investigations into the January 1 assault, the place militants swooped on Dangri village in Rajouri, and killed seven civilians from a specific neighborhood, recommend that the weapons in addition to money had been dropped only a day forward of the assault. Till that date, the militants had been dwelling with locals. In all of the three assaults this yr in Rajouri, the attackers managed to escape and stay untraced.
Sources stated the Border Action Teams (BATs), which have recruits from the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and villagers dwelling close to the LoC as members, have been once more activated in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), particularly in the launching pads shut to the Poonch-Rajouri Sector just lately.
Sources stated native militants, dwelling in PoK, from the Pir Panchal valley, comprising Rajouri and Poonch and the Chenab Valley, comprising Doda and Kishtwar, have been reactivated to construct a contemporary community of the overground staff in these two areas in the Jammu province. Non-bailale warrants towards 23 native militants from the Chenab Valley had been issued on April 26.
Security businesses have zeroed in on the names of Reyaz Ahmad alias Qasim from Reasi’s Mahore, Mohammad Amin alias Khubaib alias Haroon from Doda’s Thathri and Rafiq Nai alias Sultan from Poonch’s Mendhar for his or her position in latest surge in militant actions in the Poonch-Rajouri sector.
Official figures urged 10-12 militants, together with three to 4 non-locals break up in a number of teams, had been active in the Poonch-Rajouri sector.
