In the run-up to the Kargil Vijay Diwas Rajat Jayanti celebrations, the security forces have been kept on a state of high alert across Jammu Kashmir to prevent any other 'provocative' strike by Pakistani terrorists aimed at breaching the threshold of the Indian armed forces.
With each provocation, the security situation is turning bleak and the pressure is building up on the Indian government to punish the perpetrators of terrorist violence by carrying out punitive strikes on the active terror factories across the line of control.
The troops have been asked to remain extra cautious during their routine patrolling duties to prevent any fresh infiltration attempt from across the line of control and the International border.
Intelligence agencies have also alerted the security grid in Jammu and Kashmir about the presence of small groups of armed infiltrators (ready to be pushed inside the Indian boundaries) across different launching pads close to the line of control in the North Kashmir district of Kupwara and the frontier districts of Rajouri and Poonch, south of Pir Panjal region.
A fresh security audit of the vital installations is being done to plug the gaps in the peripheral security.
In recent days Pakistani terrorists have attempted to target security posts in the border areas of Rajouri and Poonch. However, the attacks were repulsed due to swift action by the sentry on duty forcing these terrorists to flee the area. A similar attack was attempted by these terrorists in the Kastigarh area of Doda late Thursday night at a time when the soldiers were resting for a while during ongoing combing and search operations inside a government school building.
Since July 8, the day Pakistani terrorists ambushed two army vehicles in the Badnota village of Machhedi in the Billawar tehsil of Kathua the security forces across different district headquarters of the Jammu region have been conducting search operations following inputs of movement of suspected armed persons in the region.
Recently, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi visited Northern command headquarters in Udhampur where he was briefed by the senior army officers about the prevailing security situation in the region.
According to a recent assessment made by the various military and central intelligence agencies around three dozen terror training camps remain active across the line of control.