Besides the destruction of the terrorist camps and the “launch pads”, which are used as staging grounds for pushing terrorists into Indian territory, the most significant achievement of the surgical strikes was the capture of about 20 terrorists who were brought over across the LoC for “intelligence purposes”, according to an army source.There has, however, been no official confirmation of this “catch”.

Besides, images captured by the drone-mounted cameras indicate that the commandos’ counter-terror action in PoK was “especially brutal”.

The villages on the Indian side of the LoC were made inaccessible to the general public. Even a week after the last surgical operations on 28 September, the entire stretch of the LoC in north Kashmir remains out-of-bounds for the media. This is because the army seeks to secure the huge stretch from Uri, Nowgam, Tangdhar and Teetwal, suggesting that troop deployment continues to be heavy along most parts of the LoC.

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