Jammu, October 21, 2025 – The crackdown on terror in Jammu’s rugged wilds is ramping up like never before, with Inspector General of Police (IGP) Bhim Sen Tuti dropping a bombshell this morning at a 10 AM briefing in Jammu: over 120 anti-terror operations are being launched daily to smoke out foreign militants who’ve turned the division’s dense forests into hideouts. “These Pakistani terrorists have been our biggest headache for two years,” Tuti said, his voice cutting through the room packed with 50 officers. “But our grid’s tightening – drones, intel, and relentless patrols will neutralize them soon.”
Tuti’s words, timed with Police Commemoration Day tributes, come as Jammu grapples with a 25% spike in infiltrations this year, per Army data. The ops, blending BSF jawans from Samba’s IB posts with Rashtriya Rifles in Rajouri’s hills, target groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba using high-altitude forests for recon and supplies – often via drones, as seen in yesterday’s Samba scare. “We’re strengthening the border protection net and counter-terror framework,” Tuti added, highlighting how militants exploit weather like last week’s Kishtwar snowstorms that claimed two commandos.
Historically, Jammu’s 1990s militancy saw forests as battlegrounds, killing 5,000; today’s ops echo that, but with tech like AI drones.