Ministry report of security situation of Kashmir in 2015

Ministry report of security situation of Kashmir in 2015

   The changing global geo-political dynamics presents the Nation with multiple security challenges. While constantly reviewing its operational preparedness/ postures to meet the perceived security challenges, the Indian Army (IA) is committed to the defence of the country from external and internal threats across the entire spectrum of warfare. Also, in times of disaster/ natural calamities, the Indian Army is in the forefront, providing aid and succour to the affected people.

  The security situation of J&K is at an important cross road of transcending from conflict stabilisation to conflict resolution domain. The relentless efforts put in by security forces helped the ‘Awaam’ gain confidence which led to a high voter turnout in the Parliamentary and Assembly elections. People have entrusted faith in the Indian democratic system, shunned violence and are yearning for peace and stability.

Ceasefire Violations (CFVs)

The ceasefire along the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL), Line of Control (LC) and International Border (IB) Sectors in Jammu and Kashmir has generally held. In the year 2014, there were 153 CFVs along the LC and the year 2015 witnessed 152 CFVs. Appropriate and effective retaliation, where required, was carried out to the CFVs initiated by Pakistan.

The incidents of CFVs are taken up through the established mechanisms of hotlines, Flag Meetings and DGMO’s talks. Overall, Pakistan continues to calibrate violence to keep the LC alive and to showcase issue of unresolved/ unsettled borders in J&K.

Infiltration

Pakistan, despite its recent peace overtures, has left no stone unturned to internationalise the Kashmir issue. The terror infrastructure remains intact across the border. While infiltration bids, CFVs have been on a decline in the last three months of 2015, this may just be a temporary phase of tiding over the internal security issues which are on a rise within Pakistan.

Infiltration Bids Eliminated

During the year 2015, the Army eliminated 18 infiltration bids resulting in killing of 30 terrorists whereas in 2014, the Army had eliminated 23 infiltration bids resulting in killing of 36 terrorists.

Successful Infiltration

As per assessment, in 2015 till December 31, 2015, 33 terrorists infiltrated successfully out of the 121 who attempted whereas in 2014, 65 terrorists were successful out of 222 who attempted to infiltrate.

Indian Army Plans to field remote controlled weapon towers

Indian Army Plans to field remote controlled weapon towers

    Indian Army plans to field remote controlled border towers to secure borders from infiltrating, which can be used to shoot down any infiltrators who tries to comes very close to the border lines or tries to infiltrate,  Army already tested the prototypes and planning to field them before the end of this year. said Lieutenant General RR Nimbhorkar, commander of the Nagrota-based 16 Corps. Israel is the first country who constructed such towers to stop terrorists infiltrating into Israeli main land, later some others too constructed such weapon towers, 

    India suffers very badly due to the cross border infiltration, lost many Soldiers during the encounter, also it's hard to monitor the border 24x7, India setups multiple sensors and camera's along the border, to monitor enemy activities, however they need to dispatch infantry Soldiers to stop the terrorists, so far this year, there were 300 plus infiltration attempts foiled by the Army and BSF Soldiers, more than 100 infiltrators shot dead, and Army, BSF too loose some of it's men,

    Army and BSF had many technical supports to identify the threats, however they don't have any  gadgets who can perform strike missions, attack drones uses missiles to strike enemy positions if they were inducted, however it draws enemy attention, and the operating costs too not economical and it creates possible collateral damages too , Israel is the first one who found a good solution with less costs, they constructed small towers across the concrete wall separating gaza and Israel, those remote controlled guns can be trigger by the commander, unlike some other systems works as autonomous mode, like RCWS.

   The new towers comes with a infrared radiator to detect moving or new targets in it's ranges, if any suspicious activity's founds, the sensors alert the field commander or the operator who watching the camera's, if the target identified as hostile the operator can trigger the Machine gun which is attached with the sensor system.

   the tower works in day night and all weather conditions, and keep the guns inside a small cover, if the operator press the trigger button,The guns can be raised, lowered and rotated in a 150-degree arc for better accuracy and high precision.

   There is no confirmation about the gun's characteristics, however it's believed it could be a 7.62x39 mm Light machine gun, for better fire power and range, the tower can scan the area outside from the border fences for inappropriate moving, it can detect any movement up to a distance of 80 meters ahead of the border fence.

   The scope of automation is being expanded. Nimbhorkar, whose forces guard a 224-km stretch of the disputed border in Jammu and Kashmir, told Hindustan Times, “The tests on Sten sub-machine guns have met expectations. Now, trials will be conducted on light machine guns. We hope to deploy remote-controlled weapons in areas identified by us in two months.” Nimbhorkar said the weapons would be deployed to “secure dead ground” hidden from soldiers due to topographical factors and other areas that are “extremely difficult” to patrol. Such patches are exploited by infiltrators, backed by the Pakistani army, to sneak into the country and cross the Pir Panjal range to foment strife and tension in the Kashmir valley.

“This in-house innovation will help troops keep infiltration to near-zero level,” he said.

  

2 soldiers killed as terrorists attack BSF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir

2 soldiers killed as terrorists attack BSF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir

 Two BSF jawans and a militant were killed and eight others injured after terrorists attacked a convoy of the border guarding force on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Udhampur district on Wednesday morning.

The terror strike, which comes days after ultras attacked Dinanagar Police Station in Punjab, was the first in Udhampur district after over a decade.

A senior police officer said that "There was firing on a BSF convoy on the highway near Samroli by militants early this morning".

Two BSF jawans were killed and around eight personnel injured, the officer said.

Giving details, he said that militants hurled grenades and opened indiscriminate fire on the convoy when it reached Nassu belt on its way from Jammu to Srinagar. BSF jawans retaliated, leaving one militant killed.

IG Jammu, Danish Rana said that two BSF jawans and a militant were killed.

Army and police have rushed to the spot and entire area has been cordoned off, he said.

The injured have been taken to a hospital, he said, adding massive combing operations have been launched in and around areas.

Vehicular movement on the highway has been stopped due to the incident.

The convoy carrying Amarnath pilgrims had already crossed the highway when the militants attacked the BSF vehicle.

Article Published in  Deccan Chronicle 

BSF gets order to Strike Back Pakistani Firing

BSF gets order to Strike Back Pakistani Firing

BSF - Border Security Forces gets an Order from Official to use Heavy weapons to fire back against the Enemy Positions along the Border. the Pakistani forces violates with heavy fire since last week, on the first event they tries to infiltrate the border. more than four terrorists killed in last week encounter with Indian defense Forces.

later last week a  Pakistani Sniper Shoot and Kill Indian Army Soldier, who is on his Regular patrol along the border, and they contentiously violates the ceasefire, and firing across Indian Positions. 

Later the same week back to back days Indian Army and BSF kills six terrorists who tries to infiltrate Indian Border, with the support of Pakistani Border Action Team's suppressing fire. one of the terrorist is ISI handle who beheaded Indian Soldier Hemraj Last year.

Last day Pakistani illegally claimed  and summoned Indian High commissioner by showing a Toy plane belongs to India who violates Pakistani air space, Indian official declined the Pakistani officials Claim. 

Even India contentiously warned Pakistani cross border firing, they didn't stop the act of war. 

Yesterday Evening a Kashmir civilian died because of the Pakistani fire , and in the night another civilian killed in the Cross border fire. 

Meantime in the early morning Pakistanis continued firing with Mortar shells, the heavy firing stopped in the morning replaced by Small arm fire, this causes Heavy injury to two Indian BSF soldiers. 

India always gives proper counter fire against Pakistani firing using small arms. but never uses heavy weapons. 

But now some reports claimed Officials ordered BSF to counter fire with  heavy weapons, without mentioning the officials name whether BSF officials or Ministry. 

This is the Third time BSF getting such orders, early two times BSF uses the L 70 to suppress Pakistani positions along the Border. 

Two years ago Army's Ghatak Special operation team gets an order to carryout operation near border, the operation ended with killing of Pakistani Major and several Pakistani soldiers.

 

 

Using Air power to destroy Terrorist Camps in POK

Using Air power to destroy Terrorist Camps in POK

    The new Government taken power in mid 2014, with full hope of controlling border infiltrations and free hand of Indian Soldiers along the Indian Border to retaliate against enemy fire or infiltration, the New Government completes the first year, but no concrete steps against the Pakistani infiltrations, But despite condition the situations are not changed the Pakistanis doing the same again and Again,

    So far from early 2014 to 2015 nearly 50 Indians include some 10 plus Soldiers, the Terrorists almost  targeted Army bases and assaulted, later Army Busted and decapitated them, But the question remains same, How to control the Border infiltrations, The Air power is the only Options.

   The Air force and RAW intelligence almost have up to date informations about the Pakistani sponsored terrorist locations  inside Pakistani Occupied Kashmir. as earlier some Think Tanks stated that India may go for a Short Sharp war against the Pakistanis to stop the Border infiltrations, 

   The day almost soon, recent days too many reports of border infiltrations which causes Civilian and soldiers death, By comparing with Israeli's they almost Kill each and every terrorists who tries to infiltrate Israeli mainland, the Land shape is easy to spot them and Kill them, But here it's difficult, Snow's un explored area's, and worst weather conditions,

    If IAF gets the order to Destroy enemy terrorists camps inside Pakistani occupied Kashmir, It's sure Pakistan won't retaliate, lets see the exact scenario, IAF right Now has some good number of Fighters, Nearly some hundred plus Su 30 MKI is war ready which means they are in Quick reaction mode, all 100 will be launched within the moments of Some five minutes, by Moving some two to three squad of Su 30 MKI near Sri Nagar, gives complete Air superiority over PoK, with the help of IAF's Phalcon, one is assigned for Air operation and one more for  Target acquisition over PoK

    The A 50 can cover some 300+ kilometers where the original Range is classified, with the support of AEWCS some 6+6+6= 18 Su 30 MKI as Combat Air patrol, searching the Air for for enemy air activity, with the Huge combat radius and Fire power Sukhoi can keep all the enemy fighters in the Ground, if IAF dealt with Pakistan, it's clear the mission should need a IL 78 MKI Aerial refueler for continuous air operations,

       Meantime another AEWCS with RAW's elint platform will search and assign another set of fighters to perform attack mission, here all the Fighters will armed with highly accurate PGM/LGB missiles to strike the Target with pin point accuracy and score 100% target destruction capability, here we can use combination of Mirage 2000 and Jaguar Aircrafts.

  

   IAF has some twenty five plus numbers of Mirage 2000 aircrafts on Quick reaction mode, IAF has nearly 50+ Mirages where most of them in MLU, maybe 12 in MLU another twelve in test flights, along with Jaguar Bombers, here the Jaguars numbers may be upto fifty, while  some other fifty plus Jaguars is in upgrades, known as DARIN III upgrade.

    with the seventy two Ground attack aircrafts we can split them as six by six we get twelve strike packages, for round a clock mission, makes the Pakistani occupied Kashmir under Indian Air force control for some hours to clean up the land from terrorists, if each of the Strike packages comes with twenty four 500 Kg Bombs each armed with four PGM/LGB sized 250 or 500 kg warheads,

    In first wave of attack the Bombers will destroy some wide targets with 24 heavy ordinance, within a minutes another set of strike packages comes with same payload, this repeats for Six times, makes wide damages of enemy asserts, we can pause the actions for another thirty minutes to check the ground damage reports and mission debriefings to perform more in next waves,

       Meanwhile the Pakistanis will sit in the ducks, they know their Fighters won't match against the IAF's fire power, with the A 50 AEWCS weighting for Air borne targets and Su 30 MKI fighter are ready for Pakistani fighters, It's clear Pakistan won't send it's fighters to attack the Indian Missions in PoK. even if any Pakistani ultra patriot gears up his fighters for Air borne mission, Phalcon notices it quickly and direct two or more Su 30 to intercept the bogey,  with the Full speed and in Supersonic mode Su 30 easily penetrate Pakistani territory and engages the Pakistani fighters within their territory and come backs to friendly air space,

     The enemy don't knows whats doing the IAF pilots, all of them moves their hands to the Ejection seat switches instead of pushing the throttle, So it's clear that the  Pakistani air force won't take the suicidal missions,

       also the entire bombing mission only takes some 48 to 72 Hours, which results completes annihilation of terrorists inside Pakistani Occupied Kashmir which gives a temporary peace in Kashmir for next some fifty plus years,

        And It's clear Pakistan knows about Indian Amry, I sure they never forget Indian style during 1948, 1971 and 1999. if they tries the History repeats itself, and Says Indian Army smashed Pakistanis' 

Repeated Indian warnings to Pakistan

Repeated Indian warnings to Pakistan

     

      With the Modi-led government coming into power the infiltration incidents along the LOC has reduced drastically. India has repeatedly warned Pakistan of retaliation if Pakistan sticks to unprovoked firing. Since the October escalation there has been no significant incidents of border violations and infiltrations. In October, India resorted heavy firing in reply to Pakistan’s unproved across the LOC. Pakistan met with heavy retaliation from BSF which was backed by the army. Officials across the border say they were caught off guard and the scale of retaliation India showcased was unexpected and claimed Indian forces intended to destroy Pakistani sponsored hide outs and said India retaliated with light artillery even if small fire was fired.

       This threatened Pakistan and demoralized its forces which were involved in routine border violations. Since India put up a firm resistance violations have reduced to a great extent. This deterred Pakistan from trying anything across border but Pakistan’s hybrid warfare propaganda seems to have taken a high beat. Pakistan has been providing assistance to anti Indian elements in Kashmir to fight against the   Indian soldiers and plans to show Indian army activities as illegal, rallies and protests have turned out to be events specially meant to assault Indian forces.

    

       On the eastern front the situation is no different rather its more complicated. China is developing infrastructure and facilities across the border at its wimps and is surely claiming every inch of land. The border shared with China is plagued with hostile weathers which has been one of the biggest hindrances in securing this border. The threat of Chinese infiltrating areas around the border has increased considerably and the Chinese have proved their stand towards the disputed areas. 

    Naxal activities along these areas have also increased exponentially and it is widely believed that the naxals are strongly backed by Chinese forces which have are not only believed to be supporting them financially but also are supplying them with modern weaponry.

       The Home ministry has taken note of these developments seriously and is working to towards the betterment of India by solving these internal conflicts. The once neglected forces serving under the Home Ministry have now received modern weaponry and gear. Several other programs to better the morale of these forces has been initiated by the ministry.

        There have been no concrete evidences to prove Pakistani connection to the internal conflicts in the far north but what can be proved at this time is the links to various Pakistani radical groups. Even though India government has not publicly stated the state links for these activities it has criticized Pak for nurturing the radical elements. Through the diplomatic channels India has repeatedly raised the issue not just with Pakistan but also with foreign delegations and with the UN, which has been trying to harbor piece between the nations..

   Pakistani flags being used in rallies have been a common sight in Kashmir and seem this fever has gripped the south with incidents being reported in Bangalore and Hyderabad. The rising tension within the top most northern state is of at most importance to the government. The measures the government can implement here has been nullified largely in the name of humanity which seems to be really missing in the torn parts of J&K.

     Door to door operation within the country is unacceptable.  With unity being used as the biggest tool Indian forces have failed to zero in on suspects who have been against the existence of India’s sovereignty.

          A stabilized and peaceful India can be attained only if the internal inflicts are solved, solving the problems at the border is a task that the army and MoD have been running successfully for quite some time.  and prosperity such door to door operations needed, last year Israel carried out massive door to door operation in Gaza city Khan Younis, the place where most of the Rockets launched towards Israel. The Israeli Intelligence along with IDF carried out door to door operations and Killed almost 600+ Anti Israeli activities, who also carried out Rocket launches towards Israel, the International media sponsored by Arabs cried a lot, but Israel didn't were reluctant and continued its Operations.

    So the same kind of operations is needed, the Kashmir Tral city is a red  zone where most anti Indian elements operators being sheltered, door to door operation in Tral could end the pro- Pakistani propaganda war against India.

   While India successfully managed to stop border infiltrations, It's  time to enforce laws in Kashmir and make the people realize J&K is a part of India and shall always be a part of India.

 Editor Karthik Kakoor

Updates Jammu and Kashmir Flood

Updates Jammu and Kashmir Flood

It's again we have a Natural Disaster in our Kashmir, Our Government working on this to secure our Peoples, Keep cheeking for More Updates 

#JKFloodAlert: 120 NDRF personnel with 20 tons of relief material including BAUTs take off from Bhatinda for Srinagar pic.twitter.com/iHMmWilOlS

— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) March 30, 2015

Army has undertaken strengthening of weak points on the Anti Flood Bund along Jhelum river at two locations in Sonawar Area. #KashmirFloods

— ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) March 30, 2015

Flood Update in Kashmir : A Joint Control Room (JCR) has been established by Army at BB Cantt. Contact No of JCR is 2701083 #KashmirFloods.

— ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) March 30, 2015

Water levels are above the danger level but there is nothing to panic: J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on the J&K floods

— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

#JKFloods: Army is keeping a close watch on the situation; 20 columns with rescue boats standing by.

— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) March 30, 2015

J&K: Villagers stranded in low lying areas in Poonch sector #ValleyFlashFloods

— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

#ValleyFlashFloods High level meeting of BSF & CRPF DIG level officers with NDRF DG underway at NDRF HQ

— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Villagers stranded in low lying areas in J&K's Poonch sector as heavy rains lash the state #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

10 bodies recovered & 21 missing in Budgam. 4-5 houses buried in landslide. Rescue operations underway #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

21 people reported missing as a house collapsed due to land slide in Chadoora are of Budgam District. Rescue ops on. #kashmirFloods
— Suhail Bukhari (@Suhail_Bukhari) March 30, 2015

National Crisis Management meet shortly to discuss the flood situation on Jammu & Kashmir. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Multi agency Control room set up in Srinagar received around 10,000 calls and around 5000 Whatsapp message in last 24 hours. #Kashmirfloods
— Suhail Bukhari (@Suhail_Bukhari) March 30, 2015

Prime Minister deputes Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to Kashmir for assessment of flood situation.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 30, 2015

Army deploys 5 teams, balance troops on standby for rescue ops in J&K. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Two houses sink into ground at Chadoora, Budgam district of Kashmir. Police state 16 feared trapped. (PTI) #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

#J&KFloodAlert: BAUTs provided at Pulwama, Kulgam and Khanabal. Water pump provided at Shivpora, Srinagar.
— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) March 30, 2015

#J&KFloodAlert Army receives formal request for Aid to Civil authorities.
— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) March 30, 2015

#J&KFloodAlert Two IL76 flying from Bhatinda to Srinagar shortly with 2 companies of NDRF teams.
— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) March 30, 2015

Two National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams rushed to J&K for rescue operations #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Center assures full support to Jammu and Kashmir #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

People asked to move to safer areas, massive rescue operations underway. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Jhelum river crosses danger mark in Srinagar #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Jammu and Kashmir government declares flood in Kashmir. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Fresh landslides in Udhampur. River water flows into residential areas in Valley. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015

Fresh rains batter Kashmir valley, Jammu-Srinagar National Highway shut. #ValleyFlashFloods
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 30, 2015