Jammu, January 6
The ongoing encounter has become one of the longest encounters between the terrorists and the security forces after the declaration of November 2003 ceasefire between India and
Pakistan.
Though initially the Army was said to be contemplating on the idea to use the Air Force to flush out the terrorists, it later ruled out deploying the air power.
“We won’t take the services of the Air Force to neutralise the holding terrorists as the Army itself is capable to bring them down,” Brigadier General Staff of the Nagrota-based 16 Corps Gurdeep Singh told The Tribune.
According to defence sources, the Army has conducted an aerial survey of the forest region where the militants were holding and found that the militants had used CGI sheets to construct the bunkers, which are scattered over a large portion of the jungle.
