From safe houses to subterranean sanctuaries: Terror outfits change tactics

In a change of tactics, Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) terrorist clothes, Sunday, September 14 (instead of taking refuge in local houses (instead of taking refuge in the thick forests and raised ridges designed in detail designed underground shelters.

By erosing local support, this tactical change offers a new challenge to the army and other security forces.

This came to the forefront last week during a higher part of the Kulgam area where two terrorists were killed. As the operation progressed, the security forces found a hidden trench with rations, miniature gas stoves and pressure stoves as well as weapons and ammunition.

A high -level security guard who wants anonymity, the trend in the Kulgam and Shopian regions and thick forests in the south of the Pir Panjal in the Jammu region, where the perfect camouflage for terrorists, he said.

Although the security personnel have managed to monitor a few of these new hiding places, the authorities are increasingly worried, especially after the terrorists have to remain in the back and in the middle of the backs and to make attacks when they are directed from the border.

“This is not the number of killings,” an official said, “A disturbing tendency showing that terrorists are now well established in these underground shelters.” Successful 2016 retired Lieutenant Gen. According to DS Hooda, these high altitude trenches and bunkers are reminiscent of the tactics used by terrorists in the 1990s and in the early 2000s.

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Lieutenant Gen. Hoasa also marked an important issue of the absence of human intelligence, one of the main assets in the anti -terrorist operations.

Nevertheless, he believes that the army will “re -evaluate its strategy için in order to refer to the new difficulty.

B. Srinivas, General Manager of Pudducherry Police, who spent thirty years with Jammu and Kashmir police, reiterated this assessment and said that the terrorists were forced to build these shelters, because they could no longer trust the shelters in the towns and villages.

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When the local people go to their separatist ideologies more and more, they use these secret trenches to identify these secret trenches by the locals they are currently thinking of.

This will be the repetition of those who witnessed the Sarp Vinash Operation ‘in 2003, when the forces can target the secret terror camps in the Poonch region.

In order to resist this new challenge, security agencies are planning to use technology to resist the threat, and trying to use located radar (GPR) equipped drones and seismic sensors for placement during the fight against terrorism.

While drones can access difficult areas, GPR and seismic sensors can define underground cavities and structural changes, thus making it possible to determine the location of such underground shelters.

The target of the security network immediately becomes clear, which is to use these fresh instruments to improve the intelligence in these forest straps and to neutralize the remaining terrorists.

In the past, the army, underground shelters and human-made gaps faced the threat, but this was in the regions in Pulwama, Kulgam and Shopian in 2020-22.

Samples, the authorities, Rambi Ara, known for the fluctuating water levels and is often affected by flash floods is a hiding place, he said. The terrorists were hiding in a iron shelter in the middle. The troops then saw the opening of an empty oil barrel used by terrorists to enter a shelter.

During this period, more space report began to surface in traditional Kashmir households and underground shelters.

Covered with intense apple trees, the army found another underground shelter in BandpoH, where terrorists managed to create an underground room.

After noticing a polyethylene layer covering nothing, the shelter was finally exposed and recently filled.

Another interesting hide and search strategy witnessed another interesting hiding and search strategy in Labipora, where terrorists covered a iron box on the banks of a river and held a small pipe to breathe underground.

Published – 14 September 2025 03:13 pm ist