Attack On Iaf Personnel

Several people were detained on Sunday as security forces launched a massive search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on two IAF vehicles that left one personnel dead.

Even as search operations continue after the ambush on a convoy in Poonch, a worrying aspect for the forces has been how the challenging topography and dense fore in the Poonch-Rajouri region have left personnel exposed on several occasions.

One soldier of the Indian Air Force was killed in action and five others were injured when two vehicles, including one of the IAF, came under heavy terrorist fire in the Surankote area of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, sources said.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail in a terror financing case, on Wednesday appeared in a special court through Video conferencing.

As many as 156 Armymen and three IAF personnel were killed in terrorist attacks as well as counter-terror operations in the last five years, according to details provided by the Defence Ministry in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

A special court in Jammu on Monday farmed charges against chief of the banned JKLF Yasin Malik and six others for killing an IAF persnnel on the outskirts of Srinagar 30 years ago.

The Border Security Force (BSF) will deploy around 2,000 additional personnel along the Punjab and Jammu borders in order to plug unfenced riverine and forest gaps even as it submitted a fresh report to the government today stating there was no evidence of infiltration along the IB in the wake of the terrorist attack on the IAF base in Pathankot.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has given a clean chit to its pilot and crew accused of abandoning an injured radio operator after their Mi-17 chopper was attacked by Maoists while on a rescue mission in Chhattisgarh in January.

IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik on Wednesday said he was not in favour of use of air power in anti-Naxal operations, a day after the worst ever Maoist attack in which 75 CRPF personnel and a police constable were killed in Chhattisgarh.

Several people were detained on Sunday as security forces launched a massive search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on two IAF vehicles that left one personnel dead.

Even as search operations continue after the ambush on a convoy in Poonch, a worrying aspect for the forces has been how the challenging topography and dense fore in the Poonch-Rajouri region have left personnel exposed on several occasions.

One soldier of the Indian Air Force was killed in action and five others were injured when two vehicles, including one of the IAF, came under heavy terrorist fire in the Surankote area of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, sources said.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail in a terror financing case, on Wednesday appeared in a special court through Video conferencing.

As many as 156 Armymen and three IAF personnel were killed in terrorist attacks as well as counter-terror operations in the last five years, according to details provided by the Defence Ministry in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

A special court in Jammu on Monday farmed charges against chief of the banned JKLF Yasin Malik and six others for killing an IAF persnnel on the outskirts of Srinagar 30 years ago.

The Border Security Force (BSF) will deploy around 2,000 additional personnel along the Punjab and Jammu borders in order to plug unfenced riverine and forest gaps even as it submitted a fresh report to the government today stating there was no evidence of infiltration along the IB in the wake of the terrorist attack on the IAF base in Pathankot.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has given a clean chit to its pilot and crew accused of abandoning an injured radio operator after their Mi-17 chopper was attacked by Maoists while on a rescue mission in Chhattisgarh in January.

IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik on Wednesday said he was not in favour of use of air power in anti-Naxal operations, a day after the worst ever Maoist attack in which 75 CRPF personnel and a police constable were killed in Chhattisgarh.