The Army expects an increase in infiltration attempts over the next month-and-a-half, before it starts snowing, with militants gathered at about 7-8 staging points north of the Pir Panjal region of Kashmir, army sources said on Monday. Army chief Gen. Bipin Rawat said on Sunday that it had targeted four such staging posts across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Tangdhar and Keran sectors on Saturday night. Gen. Rawat had asserted that three camps had been destroyed and that the damage to the fourth facility was being ascertained. “The launch pads that were hit were located 10-12 km inside Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) from the LoC,” the source said. The Army had stated that after Pakistan resorted to unprovoked cease fire violations targeting civilians “calibrated escalation of area weapons was undertaken by the Indian side in which terrorist launch pads, Pakistan Army posts giving incidental protection to these launch pads, and certain gun positions were hit.” The Army had used 155mm Bofors artillery guns to undertake the firing assault.

Source: The Hindu October 21, 2019 20:48 UTC