[repost] to help lift the lid from your head...
IOK has one of the worlds most militarised zones with a combined personnel count of over 1 Million+ troops.
The Indian Armed Forces in IOK include:
-Indian Army
-Navy
-Airforce
-Special Operations Division
-Central Armed Police Forces
-Border Security Force
-Central Reserve Police Force
-Sashastra Seema Bal
-ITBP
-The Jammu and Kashmir Police have their own special forces unit focued on anti-insurgency labelled the SOG (Special Operations Group).
Indian SF are deployed in the region including Indian Army Paratrooper SF, Indian Navy MARCOS and IAF Garud Commandos. The Indian Navy Special Forces have the unique role of securing the Wular Lake.
The region is a maze of Military and Police Checkposts:
The border with Pakistan is one of the most heavily polices, monitored and the Indian Government has expanded the fencing to such a level that they have erased hectares of farmland in the process:
The region is home to: Northern Command | Headquarters: Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir. It has three subordinate units or Corps, such as:
- XIV Corps having headquarters at Leh
- XVI Corps having headquarters at Nagrota
- XV Corps having headquarters at Srinagar
Furthermore, seven divisions and one Brigade (10 artillery Brigades) function under the Northern command.
The IAF has a number of Squadrons in the region including:
Leh Squadron - based out of Leh Air Base & Troop Transport Mi17 V5
223 Squadron - AFS Srinagar
Please note the distances (as the crow files from Muzaffarabad to Pahalgam)
169Km - please pay close attention to the terrain.
Right in the heart of Pahalgam rests the camp for 116Bn of the Central Reserve Police Force
Are the Government of India honestly trying to claim that a handful of people in flipflops armed with small arms managed to traverse 169 kilometres deep into one of the most militarised zones in the world, across extremely difficult terrain, bypassing numerous check posts and carry out a terrorist attack right next to the base of the Central Reserve Police Force and escape without being detected?
Rather than point fingers at Pakistan, the Indian people should ask their ministers, their home department, the security forces and intelligence agencies,
HOW? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Are you so incompetent?
But we all know the truth don't we...