{"id":34987,"date":"2020-11-09T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2020-11-09T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:39:58","slug":"machil-ops-still-on-this-year-25-30-militants-managed-to-infiltrate-140-sneaked-in-last-year-adg-bsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=34987","title":{"rendered":"Machil Ops still on, this year 25-30 militants managed to infiltrate, 140 sneaked in last year: ADG BSF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Says 250 to 300 militants at launch pads across LoC<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: Additional Director General of BSF Surinder Pawar Monday said that the operation in Machil area of north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district is still underway and that this year only 25 to 30 militants managed to infiltrate into this side compared to 140 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to media men at BSF Headquarters at Humhama on Srinagar outskirts on the wreath laying ceremony of slain BSF constable, the ADG BSF said that at 1 am (on Saturday), BSF men noticed suspicious movement of three militants at Machil sector after which a team of BSF led by two constables\u2014Constable Sudir Kumar and Constable Abdul challenged the militants. \u201cOne of the militants fired at Constable Sudir injuring him badly. The exchange of fire continued till 4:30 am. The injured BSF constable succumbed to his injuries,\u201d Pawar said as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He said that with the first light on Sunday, army reinforcements launched an operation in which two militants were killed. \u201cIn the exchange of firing, army captain Ashutosh Kumar and two soldiers were killed,\u201d the ADG BSF said. He said the BSF had already an input about possible infiltration bid. \u201cOur ambush-cum patrolling party noticed the movement of militants on the intervening nigh to November 7 and 8,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Asked the status of infiltration this year, he said this year only 25 to 30 militants managed to enter into this side compared to 135 to 140 last year. \u201cOur counter infiltration grid is very strong. Machil was obviously a big infiltration bid that was foiled by alert troops,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He said the operation at Machil is still on. \u201cThe area comprises tough terrain and uneven ground. To rule out the presence of any other militant, sanitization and mopping operation is on in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He said alert troops are maintaining highest level of vigil to foil further infiltration bids along the LoC. \u201cIn view of the snowfall prediction in mid-November, there may be more attempts. But our troops are alert to foil all bids,\u201d the BSF officer said. He said that there are 250 to 300 are still present at the launch pads across LoC, who may try to infiltrate before the snowfall\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says 250 to 300 militants at launch pads across LoC Srinagar: Additional Director General of BSF Surinder Pawar Monday said that the operation in Machil area of north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district is still underway and that this year only 25 to 30 militants managed to infiltrate into this side compared to 140 last year. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}