Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Rajouri and Jammu today to review security after the Poonch attack on army vehicles, in which four jawans were martyred.
Speaking to ANI, Qamar Agha said, "Pakistan is trying to create a new situation and once again trying to promote militancy as the graph of militancy has gone down and people have realised that militancy has no solution. Developmental agenda was being promoted there, a number of companies are
In a joint operation at Panzu and Gamiraj in Pulwama district, the Indian Army and J-K Police arrested three individuals with two pistols and other war-like stores.
Three suspected individuals have been apprehended along with the recovery of two pistols and other war-like stores during a joint cordon and search operation by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, the Army said on Tuesday.
Amid the recent increase in attacks on its troops, the Indian Army is now planning to increase the number of troops in the Poonch-Rajouri sector to curb the activities of the Pakistani terrorists there, sources said on Monday.
Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Monday visited the Rajouri-Poonch sector to review the security situation in the area even as a Brigadier has been attached for a Staff Court of Inquiry.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday paid tribute to two army personnel, Naik Virendra Singh and Rifleman Gautam Kumar, who lost their lives in a terrorist ambush on Thursday in Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Additional security personnel were deployed in the Poonch district on Monday even as a search operation was ongoing in the forested terrain of Dera ki Gali, where two Army vehicles were ambushed by heavily armed terrorists from across the border last week.
In a solemn wreath-laying ceremony, Leiutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command paid homage to four soldiers who laid down their lives during the terrorist operation in Surankote of Poonch district.