High-altitude unit spawned by Pahalgam attack, trained by AP’s Greyhounds

SRINAGAR: J&K Police person deployed “Snow Leopards”, a specialised portion raised aft past year’s Pahalgam attack, and a akin peculiar enactment called “Markhor” to antagonistic terrorists successful higher reaches successful a tactical displacement to predominate snow-bound peaks and dense forests.A elder constabulary authoritative said the strategy was revised aft terrorists progressively began operating from wood areas successful caller years. The caller units comprise personnel, peculiarly young members, trained astatine facilities of Greyhounds, Andhra Pradesh’s ace commandos agelong deployed against Maoists. “The grooming has been underway for the past twelvemonth successful batches,” the authoritative said.Snow Leopards were raised to fortify high-altitude operations, including upland tops and ridges, the authoritative said.

The Markhor batches are trained for forests and rugged mountainous areas agelong utilized by terrorists arsenic hideouts. Its sanction is derived from a Persian word meaning “snake eater,” symbolising agility and resilience.Both units are equipped with modern weapons and connection systems. They run successful coordination with the Army and are susceptible of sustaining long-duration operations successful pugnacious terrain.DGP Nalin Prabhat underscored the displacement successful strategy portion addressing caller recruits astatine a peculiar grooming centre successful Jammu’s Talwara earlier this month.

“We person shifted the combat to the precocious reaches and taken the conflict into the jungles,” the DGP said, adding operations present absorption connected mountainous areas from Chatroo to Udhampur to Kathua, targeting the enemy.Prabhat cited past year’s “Operation Mahadev”, successful which 3 terrorists progressive successful the Pahalgam onslaught were killed, arsenic an illustration of the caller strategy.In his address, the DGP besides underlined an enlargement successful constabulary outreach, with much than 5,300 “Thana Diwas” programmes held past twelvemonth to fortify assemblage ties. He highlighted intensified anti-narcotics efforts, with 2,276 arrests implicit 2 years, including 226 nether NDPS Act, and 54 attachment of properties linked to cause trafficking. He touted the numbers arsenic the highest successful the country.“Our adjacent link with the radical remains our biggest strength,” the DGP said, adding that engaging younker is simply a cardinal origin successful the combat against drugs.