Monstrous operation to flush out aggressors in Kashmir

Srinagar, May 4: Helicopters and automatons circumnavigated the air and more than 4,000 troops today fanned out crosswise over south Kashmir's Shopian region in a huge operation to flush out activists squatted inside homes.

The operation focusing on aggressors who have been stowing away in the region and striking against security powers started in the early hours of the morning with security powers, including armed force, police and CRPF, walking into more than twelve towns in the area, armed force sources said.

There have been no losses up until now.

The operation in Shopian, around 55 km from here, was maybe the greatest in over 10 years in the agitated Kashmir Valley, an armed force official said on the state of secrecy.

Way to-entryway pursuit of houses, a practice halted in the late 1990s, was re-presented today. The troops requested that all villagers gather in a typical zone so an appropriate hunt of their homes could be done,

"We don't wish to have any regular citizen setback and the measure was along these lines required," said a senior armed force official occupied with the operation.

The cordon and inquiry operation (CASO) took after knowledge contributions about the nearness of aggressors, including remote fear based oppressors, in the zone, an authority said. Be that as it may, no contact had been set up with the aggressors up until now.

Supporting the security strengths, which incorporated a group of covered against psychological oppressors (CAT), on the ground were automatons giving ongoing knowledge to the troops.

Notwithstanding a minor stone pelting occurrence at Turkawangan town, the operation was going on easily, an authority said.

In the wake of completing an inquiry operation, security strengths done a 'turn around breadth' of the whole area at the end of the day keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee that none of the activists had slipped in after the before cordon finished.

In Delhi, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat, who was here on a two-day visit not long ago, demonstrated to journalists that security strengths had reinforced counter-penetration poses in Jammu and Kashmir.

"It is just the same old thing new. Brushing operations have been going in the past too," he said.

He said there had been an expansion in aggressor exercises in south Kashmir with episodes of policemen being executed and banks being plundered.

The operation comes four days after activists killed seven individuals, including five policemen, in bordering Kulgam.

As of late, recordings of expansive gatherings of aggressors - now and again upwards of 30 - have surfaced via web-based networking media, regardless of the boycott forced by experts on 22 such destinations and applications.

Security organizations trust that these recordings were shot in south Kashmir, particularly Shopian region.