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Sinha says well-planned counter-terrorism operations must to wipe out ultras

Our Correspondent

Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting with the Army Chief in Jammu and stated that “we must launch meticulous and well-planned counter-terrorism operations to wipe out terrorists and those aiding and abetting them.”

Prevailing security dynamics discussed

L-G Manoj Sinha deliberated on the prevailing security dynamics in the region. Chief of the Army Staff Gen Upendra Dwivedi assured the L-G of synergetic approach by the armed forces and security agencies to tackle the present situation and maintain peace and stability in the region. Gen Dwivedi also chaired a high-level joint security review meeting in Jammu, focusing on thwarting the malicious design of terrorists and anti-national elements in the region.

Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday reached Jammu to review the security situation in J&K amidst growing militant activities in Jammu region.

An official statement late on Saturday night said Sinha chaired a high-level meeting with the Army Chief, various heads of security and law enforcement agencies on the security situation in Jammu division.”

Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, DG Border Security Force, DG CRPF, DGP Jammu and Kashmir Police, heads of intelligence agencies and other senior officials of the Army, CAPF and J&K Police attended the meeting.

The statement said Sinha asked the Army, CAPF and the Jammu Kashmir Police to “pro-actively conduct coordinated counter-terrorism operations in Jammu Division.”

“We must launch meticulous and well-planned counter-terrorism operations with greater synergy between all agencies to wipe out terrorists and those aiding and abetting them,” he said.

The Lieutenant Governor also said the “security grid should be further strengthened to ensure zero cross-border infiltration.”

Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday reached here to review security situation at a meeting in Jammu and Kashmir amidst growing terror activities in parts of otherwise peaceful Jammu region.

The Army Chief chaired another meeting at the police headquarters.

This was the second visit of the Army chief to Jammu in less than three weeks after taking charge as the 30th chief of the Indian Army on June 30.

On July 16, the Army said all formations of Udhampur-based northern command are committed to eliminate the scourge of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Army said it had been conducting a series of joint and coordinated operations with J&K Police to eliminate foreign terrorists who have infiltrated from across the border and are moving in the upper reaches of Udhampur, Doda and Kishtwar districts in Jammu region and thereafter to Kashmir.

On July 3, the chief of Army staff visited border district of Poonch and also chaired a meeting in Jammu and reviewed the security situation.

Subhash Parihar

Many British administrators maintained journals in which they kept a record of their own activities, and significant events of their life and times. One such journal was kept by Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings (1754-1826), the Governor-General between October 4, 1813, and January 9, 1823. The East India Company at that time directly controlled only the Madras, Bengal, and Bombay presidencies.

During his tenure, Hastings supervised the British victory in the war against the Gurkhas of Nepal (1814-1816), the final British conquest of the Marathas in 1818, and the purchase of the island of Singapore in 1819. He also brought many Indian states into subsidiary alliance, besides carrying out educational and administrative reforms.

To inspect the British possessions in India, and to meet Indian rulers and notables, Lord Hastings undertook a long journey, from his headquarters in Bengal up to southern Punjab (now Haryana), and back. He began his voyage in June 1814 from Barrackpore, and completed it in 17 months. He died in 1826. About three decades later, his daughter Lady Sophia published the journal.

Lord Hastings hired the services of a major Indian artist, Sita Ram. His paintings are preserved in eight albums (originally 10), now acquired by the British Library, London. Recently, JP Losty, the former curator-in-charge of the Indian visual collections in the British Library, re-published the journal in the form of a beautiful book, ‘Picturesque Views of India, Sita Ram: Lord Hastings’s Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814-15’ (Roli Books).

Hastings passed through Murshidabad, Patna, Benaras, Allahabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Moradabad, Hardwar, Karnal and Hansi. His return journey up to Kanpur was by a slightly different route, via Mathura, Agra and Farrukhabad.

The retinue crossed the Jamuna from the Saharanpur side on January 2, 1815, and passed through Kunjpura, Karnal, Jind, Hansi, Bahadurgarh and Narela. On January 27, he re-crossed the Jamuna at Baghpat. On the method adopted to cross the river, he wrote: “Though this may perhaps be reckoned its lowest period, it is a great body of water. I forded it on my elephant. The bottom is sand. It is firm where I passed, but in other parts three or four elephants were much embarrassed by sinking in it. While the elephant is thus entangled, they give large fascines of brushwood, and he will with his trunk place them under his leg, so as to enable himself to draw up his feet out of the quicksand. Some camels had stuck fast near the western shore. Ropes were tied around them with the ends fastened to elephants, which readily dragged the camels out of their difficulty.”

On the way to Karnal, Nawab Rahmat Khan, ruler of the small state of Kunjpura, met Hastings. The Nawab was aware that the British cantonment of Karnal, between his state and the Sikh chiefs, rendered him safe from the Sikhs. Hastings noted that the inner and outer walls of the ditch of Kunjpura, made of “brick, laid pattern-wise, so as to produce a handsome effect”, were in a good condition.

On reaching Karnal, his retinue camped in front of the cantonment, the town lying at some distance in the rear. He felt that as compared to Meerut, Karnal was more suitable for stationing a body of troops as there was no great river between Karnal and Delhi on the one hand, and between Karnal and Ludhiana on the other, which swelled in rainy season, and made the passage difficult to traverse.

At Karnal, he inspected the fort and the artillery depot, which was originally a serai, erected for the convenience of travellers between Delhi and Lahore. Most probably, it was Serai Bhara Mal, built during the reign of Akbar (1596-1605).

Hastings described it as follows: “The building converted into a depot is square, with two elegant gateways. The arched accommodations all round afford excellent storage. The roof, supported by those arches, is flat and forms a broad rampart walk behind a good parapet. An excellent ditch, secured by the fire of towers at three of the corners, renders the defensive state of the depot nearly complete. The part where the work has not been perfected is the fourth corner, where the plan could not be continued without destroying a large tree, under which a fakeer had taken up his residence. Leaving an object of great public concern unfinished on this account shows the attention which is paid (and wisely) to the prejudices of the natives.”

It was General Hewitt, erstwhile commander-in-chief, who ordered appropriation of the serai. But “Lt Col Worsley, then Adjutant General, being more intimate with the feelings of the natives, lamented the impression likely to be made by this perversion of a charitable institution: therefore, he purchased a neighbouring spot of ground, and built on it, at his own expense, a serai of equal extent (though not equally ornamented)”.

In the area of Karnal, Ali Mardan Khan, a prominent Persian noble of the period of Shah Jahan (1628-58), had dug a canal from the place where the Jamuna came out of hills into the plains, up to Delhi. Hastings traced for a considerable distance the remnants of this canal. According to him, the object was to “fertilise the long tract of country from its source to its termination; in which extent no tolerable water is to be produced but by sinking wells to such an enormous depth as is beyond the compass of ordinary funds. All the water found in the higher strata is brackish and is deleterious to vegetables as well as unwholesome for man… This noble work of art formerly rendered the country through which it passed an absolute garden; and the sums paid by the several villages for the privilege of drawing water from the canal, furnished a considerable revenue to government… During the wars, which for a long period wasted the country between the Sutlej and the Jamuna, the banks of the canal were broken in many places, and its course stopped… no set of men found an interest to excite their negotiating for restoration, or perhaps saw a chance of prevailing on the Sikhs to allow it. The country has now, in consequence, an air of desolation. Ruins of villages meet the eye everywhere…”

In the middle of the day, Hastings had a durbar, attended by Maharaja Karam Singh of Patiala, along with his minister Misr Naudh Roy, Raja Bhag Singh (Jind), Bhai Lal Singh (Kaithal), Bhai Ajit Singh (Ladwa), Fateh Singh (Thanesar), and his nephew. Each of them presented Hastings a bow (without any arrow), as a symbol of surrendering their power into his hands. Hastings presented “a new fashioned English gun” to the Maharaja of Patiala. Making use of the occasion, Hastings acquainted them of his intention to repair the canal.

Writing about the Sikh Rajas, Hastings describes them “as a bold, athletic, and animated race”. The chiefs and attendants were richly dressed, but in a martial way. They all wore “a scarlet turban, wreathed very close and high, so as to be almost conical, which appears fashioned for activity. Their several escorts of troops were handsome and soldier-like….”

At another place, Hastings is again all praise for the Sikhs and Jats: “They are not bulky, but they are tall and energetic. Their step is firm and elastic; their countenances frank, confident, and manly; and their address has much natural politeness. I noticed the same appearance in the Rohillas and Patans (Pathans), but with less of cheerful air than I observe in the Sikhs. More active, brave, and sturdy fellows can nowhere be found than these tribes present.”

On January 10, the retinue proceeded to Jind and encamped in front of its fort. About this town, Hastings writes that it “covers a small hill, and it has at a distance a showy appearance which gradually declines as a nearer approach affords a more distinct one. The place is fortified in a manner to be respectable against a native force. The fort, or citadel, which contains the palace, is within the town, and shouldered by the houses. As it is built on the most elevated part of the hill, it looks over everything. From the manner in which the works and buildings are huddled together, it would soon be reduced by a proper proportion of mortars.”

On January 13, Hastings’ retinue reached Hansi, at that time the headquarters of Col James Skinner (1778-1841). He gives valuable information of its fort, only parts of which survive now: “The fort stands on an elevation considerable for this country; and as the hill is insulated and abrupt, it is a striking object… It was the favourite stronghold and residence of George Thomas, well known for having during a considerable time maintained an independent dominion over a large tract of territory here… as a frontier post, Hansi is very advantageously situated; therefore, it is expedient to keep up the fortress.”

On January 15, Hastings received Jaswant Singh, the Sikh chief of Nabha. On January 21, he marched to Bahadurgarh and observed that formerly it has “been a place of no mean rate, but it has much fallen into decay”. On January 26, Hastings reached Narela. Here, Begam Samru (1753-1836), the ruler of Sardhana, a small principality near Meerut, came to pay her compliments. The next day, he crossed Jamuna at Baghpat, entering what is now Uttar Pradesh.

Following her recital of ‘ardas’, Dhillon was trolled on social media and most of them appeared to be from her party’s support base

PTI

Washington, July 20

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has denounced the racist response to Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon’s recital of Sikh prayer ‘ardas’ in the presence of the party’s presidential nominee Donald Trump, and said it was “completely unacceptable”.

Dhillon, a Republican Party leader and Civil Rights Attorney, recited the prayers at the four-day Republican National Convention that began last Monday. Delegates and officials had gathered at the event in Milwaukee to greet Trump like a hero for the first time since a gunman opened fire at the former president during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, grazing his ear.

Following her recital of ‘ardas’, Dhillon was trolled on social media and most of them appeared to be from her party’s support base.

In a statement on Friday, Krishnamoorthi said, “The reprehensible and racist response to Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon’s Sikh prayer on Monday night is completely unacceptable.”

Krishnamoorthi, a four-term Congressman from Illinois, is a Democrat.

“Discrimination on the basis of race or religion has no place in America, and must be called out and strongly condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike when it occurs,” he said.

The Congressman has been vocal in speaking against discrimination against Indian-Americans, cutting across party lines.

At the Republican National Convention last Monday, Dhillon (55) said, “These last 48 hours have been some of the most intense, yet more prayerful of our lives, the heinous attack on President Trump and his supporters made all of us pause and seek answers in comfort.”

A video posted on ‘X’ by the California Republican Party, showed Dhillon saying at the Fiserv Forum: “I come from a family of Sikh immigrants, and I’m honoured to share with you, my fellow Republicans and guests tonight, a prayer from my faith and tradition practised by over 25 million worldwide.”

“We recite the Ardas (Sikh prayer) before any new endeavour, giving thanks to God and asking for his protection and help to uphold the values of humility, truth, courage, service, and justice for all,” she added.

“Dear Waheguru, our one true God, we thank you for creating America as a unique heaven on this Earth, where all people are free to worship according to their faith. We seek your blessings and guidance for our beloved country. Please bless our people with wisdom as they vote for the upcoming election and please bless with humility, honesty, skill and integrity all those who conduct the election,” she had said after offering the ‘ardas’.

News outlet Mother Jones reported that Dhillon’s prayer “set off a firestorm in the far-right corners of Christian Twitter”.

Andrew Torba, CEO of far-right social media platform Gab, ranted to his 400,000 followers on X, saying that “Christian nationalism must be exclusively and explicitly Christian”.

Republican Oklahoma state Senator Dusty Deevers seemed to agree, the news outlet reported. “Christians in the Republican party nodding silently along to a prayer to a demon god is shameful,” he posted.

Sybilla Barrow’s paintings of Subedar Major Mauji Ram (left) and as she imagined he would have looked as a recruit. Both are displayed at Jat Regimental Centre, Bareilly.

Col Ashok Ahlawat

The air was getting warmer by the day and the hot weather was coming. Soon it would have full sway over the plains of India, from Peshawar to Calcutta. The offices of the Eastern Command headquarters at Lucknow started packing up for the annual move to the cool hills of Nainital for the summer. They would halt at Bareilly en route.

Sybilla Barrow’s husband was the army commander and Nainital held a special attraction for the family. He was born there in 1864. His father had also been a General in the British Indian army.

A carriage was driving the two to a bungalow in Bareilly when she asked him, “George, who are these boys in native costumes?”

“They are the fresh recruits who have arrived for their military training,” the General replied.

Sybilla Barrow was an artist with a sensitive eye. She wanted to paint one of those young men she had seen. She got her art box and laid out her painting materials in a room with lots of natural light.

“Would you mind calling a few of those young boys? I would like to make a portrait of one of them,” she told her husband. “Bilkul,” he replied. He spoke good Hindustani.

He sent a message across to the centre commandant, who conveyed it to the Subedar Major of the Jat Regimental Centre. Soon, a couple of recruits in dhoti and kurti reached the bungalow.

She sketched for some time and then threw down her pencil, before dismissing the recruits, “Some boys came and I tried to sketch them. They won’t do,” she told her husband.

The next day, the Subedar Major sent some more recruits to sit for her. One or two were selected, but were sent back again.

A puzzled centre commandant called the Subedar Major. “She wants to draw an ideal young Jat, why can’t you select them?”

“Sahib, I have sent a fair sample of young men from all over. I have sent boys from Bikaner, Rohtak, Hisar, Meerut. I don’t know what the Memsahib is looking for?”

Colonel Warden, the centre commandant, told Subedar Major Mauji Ram to go the bungalow himself and find out. Like her husband, Mrs Barrow spoke Hindustani and had a deep affection for India and its people.

“Memsahib, what kind of recruits are you looking for? I have sent you the finest recruits,” he told her.

Sybilla Barrow took a long look at him, her artistic insincts fully deployed. The Subedar Major was a fine looking man, 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a clean-cut sculpted face. He stood there, a picture of soldierly dignity that long years of service had imparted to him.

“Would you mind if I ask you to go and sit on the chair?” she told him and started sketching the Subedar Major soon enough.

“But Memsahib, I am an old man,” he protested.

“Never mind, I think you will do perfectly,” she shot back.

Many sittings later, the two paintings were complete. Mrs Barrow imagined how he would have looked as a young recruit and drew him out of the sheer power of her imagination.

Both the paintings of Subedar Major Honorary Captain Mauji Ram, Order of British India (OBI), are displayed at the Jat Regimental Centre, Bareilly. The portrait of the young Mauji Ram acquired a symbolic aura; today, it is embossed as the regimental escutcheon and is an iconic symbol of the Jat soldier.

Belonging to Dhandlan village in Jhajjar district of Haryana, he died in 1960. His son, Major Ran Singh Ahlawat, joined his father’s battalion. It was part of the British empire forces that surrendered to the Japanese in 1942. Taken a prisoner of war, on the raising of the Indian National Army, he volunteered to join the INA, becoming a staff officer of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Maj Ahlawat’s son, too, joined his regiment as an officer.

Two of Subedar Major Honorary Captain Mauji Ram’s great grandsons are serving Army officers in the Special Forces.

A third great grandson, Maj Raghunath Ahlawat, also of the Special Forces, died in a counter-terrorist operation in Uri in 2022.

As drama unfolds in the US, the Ambani wedding tamasha keeps India engrossed, and an iconic Canadian writer’s sordid story leaves one stunned

Ira Pande

There are weeks when I don’t know what to do as I sit down to write my column. Nothing happens and the world seems to be asleep. However, this time, there is such a surfeit of events that I don’t know where to start. So let’s begin with the drama unfolding in the US. After the high-octane national elections here, all those suffering from withdrawal symptoms were delighted to plug into another political battle. Initially, it seemed like a pow-wow between two well-defined political actors who had nothing but hot air to offer. We giggled at the gaffes that a doddering Biden made and, after his disastrous performance in the first presidential debate, political chatter shifted to whether he was even fit to be a candidate. Then came the ear-splitting din created by the gunshot that rang out at Trump’s rally where he escaped literally by a hair’s breadth. Memes were created and shared widely, each one funnier than the last. Seriously, though, the consequences of this election are going to affect the rest of the world in the coming years, so it’s no laughing matter any more. The latest is that Biden has tested positive for Covid. God save America is all I can say.

Come now to the Ambani wedding that soaked up all the oxygen in India and large parts of the world. The sheer scale of the vulgarity, shameless display of wealth and bad taste left many of us swooning. No matter how hard one tried to escape it, virtually every national channel (many owned by the Ambanis), social media sites and gossip columns made sure that you were compelled to see it, week after week. The size of the emeralds (bigger than tindas) Nita Ambani wore, the designer lehengas and sherwanis the rest of the assembly wore (no matter how comical they looked), the long roster of celebrity guests from around the world, the gifts received by the newly-weds — all are by now public knowledge, thanks to the well-oiled PR machinery that was pressed into service.

Jokes apart, could there have been a more dignified way of celebrating a wedding in the House of the Ambanis? The answer is an unqualified yes, but in a country that is now staring into its phones all the time, the wonder of the spectacle trumped (sorry for this word) all such considerations. Look around yourselves and tell me which Indian family has the courage today to hold a quiet, private wedding? From our helpers to our family, friends and colleagues, Indian parents pay a fortune to the beauticians to lather their daughters with fistfuls of lightening creams and make-up, to the caterers who provide the multi-cuisine feast laid out and for the clothes, jewellery and cash that they have to cough up as dowry — the difference lies only in the scale. In the aspirational society that we have created, austerity and modesty are unknown concepts. Add to that the serials and films that celebrate tamashas, there can be no going back to those days when wedding feasts were cooked at home by a halwai and the bride wore her mother or grandmother’s wedding sari. In the Punjab of the Seventies and Eighties, I recall being almost stupefied by the scale of the weddings in a land where the quiet dignity of an Anand Karaj ceremony was only a small part of the chikan-shikan and dance-doonce at other accompanying parties. Naturally, a huge industry has cropped up for curating such mega events and rare is the family that can afford to buck this trend.

I want now to shift to a topic that has made me so sick that I cannot even begin to register my disgust. Alice Munro, the iconic feminist writer, died in May this year at 92 and reams were written about her insightful gaze that revealed the lives of women in provincial Canada. It was the kind of prose that touched you deeply because it was written from the heart. Then, in a recent shocking article written by her daughter, Munro was revealed as a woman who her readers did not know.

Munro’s daughter, from her first marriage, lived with her and the stepfather and was sexually abused by the stepfather over years. Like all little girls (she was just nine when this happened first), she found it difficult to speak of it. Eventually, when she did, Alice Munro refused to confront her husband and told her daughter she could not live without him. The sordid story finally reached the court and although he was indicted and convicted, the case was hushed up and never made it to any newspaper or public platform. It was as if there was an unspoken omerta in Canada to not sully the famous writer who had been awarded its first Nobel Prize!

This story has many dimensions. The lack of space restricts me from writing a fuller account of how many girls are groped or sexually abused at some point in their early life by a family member or helper. In our childhood, many such girls were shushed up by their mothers. However, the MeToo movement lifted the veil of shame that had made silence mandatory until then.

I promise my readers I will write about this one day but until then, think about what women undergo for the sake of preserving their family’s honour.

Adil Akhzer

Srinagar, July 20

Nearly three years after NATO withdrew from Afghanistan, weapons left by it are now increasingly making way to Kashmir.

Besides US-made M4 carbines, security forces have recently seized arms and ammunition from Austria and Turkey in Jammu and Kashmir.

After the Army foiled an infiltration bid at the Line of Control (LOC) in the Keran sector earlier this week, a Steyr AUG rifle, along with two magazines, was recovered from the militants. The Austrian bullpup assault rifle has been recovered in the Valley for the first time.

An senior security official told The Tribune that they were now witnessing an influx of new and modern weapons, which were earlier used by NATO.

“Some leftover weapons from the Afghan-NATO war are being pumped into the region,” he said.

A Valley-based counter-insurgency officer said the seizure of new type of weapons was “challenging” for the security forces, but agencies were “ready to tackle it”.

The officer said there had been an increase in the use of M4 rifles with night sights by militants. He, however, said AK assault rifles remained the most used and dangerous weapon.

Another significant addition, the sources said, was Turkish Canik TP9 pistols in Kashmir. Such pistols have been seized several times in the recent past, including in Sopore last month.

“As the pistols’ 9mm ammunition is easily available, it becomes easy for the terrorists to use,” he said.

Another Valley officer said the real challenge arose from the weapons having night vision. “These are deadly when it comes to ambushes,” he said.

The sources said some time ago, the security forces had seized a few Luger 9mm bullets in the Valley. Such bullets were designed by Austrian firearm designer Georg Luger in 1901.

“With modern weapons, terrorists have the upper hand at times,” the officer explained, adding that high-tech Glock and Beretta pistols, which were mostly used by the US and NATO forces, had also been recovered in Kashmir.

“What we are seeing slowly is that a lot of equipment left behind by the US and NATO is slowly finding its way into Kashmir… what we are seeing in Jammu is that terrorists seem to be well-trained. It is a challenge for security forces,” Lt Gen Deependra Singh Hooda (retd), former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command told The Tribune.

“We also have good equipment, our soldiers are equipped with modern rifles. So yes, it is a challenge that needs to be dealt with, but should it worry us too much, I don’t think so,” he said.

The sources indicated there was a rise in militants’ presence in the Jammu region, but most of them were staying off the radar by using modern high-tech encrypted communication devices. A Chinese telecom handset — Ultra Set — was seized from two areas during anti-militancy operations recently.

Most such handles blocked recently on govt request

The details of the recent terror attacks in Jammu have been accentuated via social media applications like Telegram and X by people operating social media accounts from outside the country, reveals a detailed analysis by Indian security agencies.

A terror group calling itself ‘Kashmir Tigers’ claimed to have carried out the attacks and has been broadcasting details almost live via Telegram channels and with posts on X. Individuals and accounts actively share details and images related to these incidents. The Telegram channels are being used to threaten the local population and speak about the “revival of resistance”.

Most of these social media handles have been blocked — in the past few days — at the request of the government.

Indian security agencies have done a detailed analysis of two terror attacks — one of July 8 in Kathua and another one on July 14 at Doda and come out with details on the use of social media in spreading the message of these attacks.

Kashmir Tigers is a shadow group reportedly associated with the Pakistan-backed and based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), the analysis says.

Kashmir Tigers have claimed responsibility for both the Kathua and Doda attacks. The analysis done by security agencies says over 30 social media accounts actively share details and videos related to these incidents, amplifying the messages of Kashmir Tigers.

These accounts have been tracked to countries abroad. “There is coordination between these handles, giving an insight that it’s a larger group working on social media amplification,” said a source.

‘Kashmir Tigers’ maintain two Telegram channels (names being withheld by The Tribune) to its followers. These are open channels of Telegram and anyone with that app can see it.

“Kashmir Tigers frequently post detailed claims and updates regarding their attacks. These platforms serve as crucial channels for the group to disseminate information about themselves,” the analysis says.

On the flip side, within India, the recent terrorist attacks in Kathua and Doda have elicited a strong negative sentiment from people due to the tragic loss of Indian Army personnel, says the analysis adding that matters are being discussed on social media.

The first incident occurred on July 8 in Badnota village, Kathua district. The attack targeted an Indian Army vehicle resulting in the deaths of five personnel and injuries to five others.

On July 14, Kashmir Tigers claimed responsibility for the Doda ambush in the Desa forest area resulting in the deaths of four Indian Army soldiers. This incident occurred during cordon and search operation.

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his is supposedly the live video taken by Terrorists in
Kathua ambush. They are said to have taken all weapons. All soldiers, but one ,were instantly killed. One tried to fight back, inspite of being wounded, but was soon shot. One of the terrorists goes up the truck to gather weapons. The driver of the dumper , who overtook army jeep and made them slow down, has been arrested. The terrorists were wearing body cams and were live telecasting this operation.