In the frontier area of Kupwara district, close to the Line of Control (LoC), army men are engaged in one of the longest anti-militancy operations to trace 2-3 “battle hardened” militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba. Though the Army has scaled down the size of the operation, the siege around the dense forests — around 15 km from the LoC covering five villages — continues. In the one-month battle, one militant was gunned down and another died of cold. But, the Army also lost an officer of Special Forces, Col Santosh Mahadik, who…
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