ANOTHER KARGIL : Intelligence Failure

The encounter which started on December 31 evening, continued on the consecutive eighth day today, with no major breakthrough for the troops.
Militants intermittently fired from the defensive positions inside the dense Bien forests.

The "holed up" militants are suspected to be of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit. "The holed up militants (in Bhati Dhar jungles) seem to be from Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) as per intercept received by army

The encounter between security forces and militants in the dense Batidhar forest in Mendhar area of Poonch district entered the ninth day today as the trapped militants were taking refuge in bunkers, concrete and carved out of caves.

Joint teams of Special Operation Group (SOG) of state police and Romeo Force of Indian Army have cordoned off the area. Exchanged firing continued in the daytime.

Over a dozen militants were still hiding and some para-military commandos had reached Batidhar area to sneak inside the forest area.

Security forces have lost two army soldiers, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), deputed with 39 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) unit of counter-insurgency Romeo Force and a Special Police Officer (SPO) in the encounter.

Ground Realty:

Actually its an Intelligence failure but who will accept his guilty. As per my knowledge its a border area so Army should have primary responsibility. There is strong concrete Bunkers, large scale ammunition and and sophisticated telecommunication equipments. Still Army and SOG do not know what is there neither number of people nor type and quantity of equipments. I can not understand that what IB, MI, LIU and other intelligence forces were doing ?.

It is not possible to build such a setup without local help and supply. If this is ground realty then India should understand that Kashmir could not be saved by Army until the local people support is not with us. Army can only kill the militant but Army can not change the thinking of local people.

Every one is blaming Pakistan but no one is ready to see the loop holes of our system. Every one know that Pakistan wants to take revenge of 1971 war and that's why ISI and Terrorist nexus is free to work against India. Rather blaming Pakistan why not we inspect ourselves , our system.
" If a person put his hand in fire then it must burn, but he can blame fire because it is fire's property or nature. "

RAW, IB, Government, Navy and Coast guard have information that Terrorist could attack on Mumbai by sea and specifically Hotel Taj and Oberai. They came and killed thousands of people. What we did just blaming Pakistan and ISI and tried to cover entire failure.