The Indian Army's major strike against terror launch pads in PoK, on Sunday, was crucial to stop infiltration ahead of the winters to stop attempts to create unrest in the Valley over the effective scrapping of Article 370.
According to sources, Indian intelligence agencies had given a clear-cut directive : stop terrorist infiltration into Kashmir at any cost as the cross-border militant groups would try to push as many cadre as possible in these months.
The Army had destroyed three such terror launch pads in the Neelam Valley of PoK with heavy artillery fire and caused significant damage to a fourth one, the Army Chief said on Sunday.
Sources revealed that the terror groups had been filling these launch pads, near the LoC, with fresh recruits over the last month and ground intelligence inputs had in the first week of October informed about the presence of the terrorists from the outfits - Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Badr. The GPS locations of these terror launch pads were identified and shared with the Army in New Delhi as well as Srinagar.
Once the GPS locations were received, the security establishment, government officials said, set satellites on these places and started tracking movements in and around them. They said this confirmed that these were terror launchpads, as "movements of civilians and terrorists are always different", without elaborating further.
The COAS had said that around 6-10 Pakistan Army soldiers were also killed in the cross-border strikes and the number of terrorists killed could be higher. The government sources put the final figure of terrorists killed at 18 and the number of Pak Army personnel at 12. The strike also led to the death of six civilians, they said.
The Pakistan Army used ambulances in the middle of the night to carry these dead bodies from the locations.
Pakistan has denied Indian claims of the strike on terror launch pads and said it can arrange a visit of diplomats from P5 nations to the area to expose Indian "falsehood".
The Pakistan Army has shown only the houses of the civilians destroyed in the strikes to portray it as "indiscriminate shelling" and not a precision strike.
The Indian retaliation had come a day after Pakistan military resorted to firing in Tangadhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir, along the LoC, to assist infiltration by terrorists, killing two Indian Army personnel and a civilian. Three others have also been injured in the attack.
Tailpiece.
Though the "Red Alert" was in force in Thrissur district, on account of the rains, Guruvayur had a dry spell all through the day. Lekha had gone to town to complete a few pending work and to fetch grocery.
According to sources, Indian intelligence agencies had given a clear-cut directive : stop terrorist infiltration into Kashmir at any cost as the cross-border militant groups would try to push as many cadre as possible in these months.
The Army had destroyed three such terror launch pads in the Neelam Valley of PoK with heavy artillery fire and caused significant damage to a fourth one, the Army Chief said on Sunday.
Sources revealed that the terror groups had been filling these launch pads, near the LoC, with fresh recruits over the last month and ground intelligence inputs had in the first week of October informed about the presence of the terrorists from the outfits - Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Badr. The GPS locations of these terror launch pads were identified and shared with the Army in New Delhi as well as Srinagar.
Once the GPS locations were received, the security establishment, government officials said, set satellites on these places and started tracking movements in and around them. They said this confirmed that these were terror launchpads, as "movements of civilians and terrorists are always different", without elaborating further.
The COAS had said that around 6-10 Pakistan Army soldiers were also killed in the cross-border strikes and the number of terrorists killed could be higher. The government sources put the final figure of terrorists killed at 18 and the number of Pak Army personnel at 12. The strike also led to the death of six civilians, they said.
The Pakistan Army used ambulances in the middle of the night to carry these dead bodies from the locations.
Pakistan has denied Indian claims of the strike on terror launch pads and said it can arrange a visit of diplomats from P5 nations to the area to expose Indian "falsehood".
The Pakistan Army has shown only the houses of the civilians destroyed in the strikes to portray it as "indiscriminate shelling" and not a precision strike.
The Indian retaliation had come a day after Pakistan military resorted to firing in Tangadhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir, along the LoC, to assist infiltration by terrorists, killing two Indian Army personnel and a civilian. Three others have also been injured in the attack.
Tailpiece.
Though the "Red Alert" was in force in Thrissur district, on account of the rains, Guruvayur had a dry spell all through the day. Lekha had gone to town to complete a few pending work and to fetch grocery.
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