Security Forces Launch Anti-Terror Operations In Kashmir's Kupwara

Srinagar: The Army and the police on Sunday launched a joint operation at Kandi in Kashmir's Kupwara district after a tip-off was received about the presence of two to three terrorists.

Gunshots were heard in the afternoon from the area, which has been barricaded by the security forces, sources said.

Sources said there was no clarity about whether an encounter had taken place.

The last anti-terror ops took place in Jammu and Kashmir's Machil sector on Friday, in which terrorists killed and mutilated an Indian soldier. Mandeep Singh, 27, will be cremated today at his village in Haryana's Kurukshetra.

The increased activity of the terrorists is seen as fall-out of the 100-day unrest in the state, during which little or no anti-terror operations have been carried out.

it also comes at a time when Pakistan has ratchet up the ceasefire violations in the wake of last month's terror attack in Uri, in which 19 soldiers have been killed, and the subsequent army surgical strikes on terror launch-pads across the Line of Control.

Pakistan has so far carried out 45 ceasefire violations -- three of which have taken place since yesterday.