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NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: A massive cordon and search operation is on in the forest area around Dera Ki Gali where four Army personnel were killed in an ambush on Thursday, with several locals detained for questioning and drones deployed for aerial surveillance to track the attackers who are likely to be hiding in nearby forests...
It is believed that 25-30 Pakistani terrorists have been hiding in the upper reaches of the Poonch-Rajouri sector to launch attacks on security forces and defence forces suspect a nexus between Pakistan and China to revive terrorism in the sector to pressurise removal of troops from Ladakh...
Defence sources said that terror activities in the sector have spiked in recent years after the Army moved the Uniform Force of the Rashtriya Rifles to Ladakh to counter Chinese aggression in 2020..
Troops with the Rashtriya Rifles - a specialist counter insurgency force - were moved to Ladakh after China brought in thousands of troops to disputed areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)...
"The game plan seems to be to revive terrorism in the Poonch-Rajouri sector to pressurise the Army to remove troops from Ladakh and redeploy them to an anti-insurgency role," sources said..
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