Security agencies arrested two persons, Khalid and Nazim, both residents of Pakistan administered Kashmir’s (PaK) Muzaffarabad, in the Gulmarg range, in the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 27, reports The Hindu. Initial reports suggest both were “militant guides” and could be part of new infiltration bids facilitated in the area.
Separately, sources in the security agencies said the Army’s Ustad and Gulab posts in the upper reaches of Gulmarg in the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir were posed with threats by armed men who sneaked two kilometres into this side of Kashmir (date not disclosed), reports The Hindu. Sources said the attacks were repulsed but the infiltrators remain untraced.
Gulmarg has been put on a high alert after infiltration bids by militants in the past one week, and multiple attempts to attack the forward posts by the Pakistan Army, according to officers of the counter-insurgency grid in Srinagar.