The Poonch gunfight between the militants and the security forces that began on October 11 and spanned for more than 20 days in the dense forests of Poonch, Jammu division, seems to have ceased. Although to the local sources it appears that 10 or more militants involved in the Poonch encounter have trekked down to villages in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, Times of India reported.
The report also claims that their sources have said some militants who escaped during the Poonch gunbattle have taken refuge in various villages in the Shopian district.
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The report adds, top Army officers said they were confident about tackling the Poonch militants using a new method. According to locals, the Army is allotting new house numbers to individual hearths and recording the names and other details of those who dwell there, including the mobile phone numbers of all family members.
“It makes it easy to check the backgrounds of residents and also learn the details of any visitor to the district. The allotment of house numbers to all village houses means we have to contact our informers less frequently as contacting them risks exposing them,” a senior military officer deputed to the district said, as per the report.
“We get to know about the arrival of any guest at any house in the district with the new mechanism,” the official added.
The report says that according to intelligence sources, the militants have been instructed not to use mobile phones in south Kashmir, particularly not in Shopian district, and have been told to lay low till further instructions from their handlers across the border.
DGP Dilbag Singh, meanwhile, reviewed the security scenario in south Kashmir and called for augmenting security in vulnerable places. He said operations should be stepped up to check the movement of “criminals, militants and other suspicious elements.”