MT Desk: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian forces have further intensified their cordon and search operations, crackdown and harassment of civilians across the Kashmir Valley.
The operations were intensified on the direction of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief Gyanendra Pratap Singh, who on Saturday directed officers to intensify operations across Kashmir.
Singh gave the instructions while chairing an operational meeting at the CRPF Group Centre in Srinagar.
The meeting was attended by Special DG (Operations) Vitul Kumar, Special DG J&K Zone Sandeep Khirwar, IG Operations Kashmir Sector Vineet Brijlal, IG Srinagar Sector Pawan Kumar Sharma, other senior CRPF officers and ground commanders of Valley-based units.
During the conference, the DG instructed senior officers to intensify operations across the Valley, improve real-time coordination among Indian forces and maintain heightened operational readiness to target pro-freedom activists and their supporters. The discussions also focused on strategies for sustaining and intensifying the crackdown across the occupied territory.
The CRPF chief also felicitated personnel involved in the twin operations, ‘Ops Ashdhar’ and ‘Ops Korag’, conducted in Budgam in September 2026.
The fresh orders come in the wake of an attack on a CRPF checkpoint near Nowpora Akhran in Kulgam on Wednesday, in which three CRPF personnel were injured.
In the aftermath of the attack, Indian forces have unleashed a massive crackdown across south Kashmir. More than 500 people have been questioned and hundreds detained for interrogation.
Search operations, checkpoints and house-to-house searches have been intensified across south Kashmir, with people being subjected to frisking, questioning and harassment.
Locals say the intensified operations have further increased hardships for the civilian population in the occupied territory, which is already reeling under heavy military presence, cordon and search operations, harassment and grave human rights violations.