{"id":64748,"date":"2026-01-14T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/security-forces-intensify-search-operation-in-kathuas-remote-villages\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:55:46","slug":"security-forces-intensify-search-operation-in-kathuas-remote-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/security-forces-intensify-search-operation-in-kathuas-remote-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Forces Intensify Search Operation in Kathua\u2019s Remote Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Security forces on Wednesday stepped up an ongoing search operation by extending the cordon to track down and neutralise terrorists in the remote forested areas of <strong>Kathua district<\/strong>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was launched on Tuesday in the <strong>Najote forest area of Billawar tehsil<\/strong> following specific inputs about the presence of a terrorist. Several gunshots were heard when security forces moved in to sanitise the area.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was no direct contact between the terrorist and the security forces. Fresh intelligence inputs suggest that the suspect managed to escape the initial cordon by taking advantage of the <strong>treacherous terrain and darkness<\/strong>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the terrorist allegedly took food from a shepherd in a nearby area around midnight before moving deeper into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Reinforcements have since been deployed in multiple directions, and <strong>more than a dozen villages around Najote have been cordoned off<\/strong> as part of the expanded operation to track down the terrorist and any possible associates.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>Jammu and Kashmir Police\u2019s Special Operations Group (SOG)<\/strong> also launched a separate cordon-and-search operation in <strong>Jakhole Baira and adjoining villages in the Rajbagh area<\/strong> after a local resident reported suspicious movement of two persons near his cattle shed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo trace of the suspicious persons has been found so far,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Republic Day approaching<\/strong>, security has been tightened across the Jammu region, particularly in <strong>border villages and high-altitude areas<\/strong>, to thwart any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said <strong>frequent drone intrusions from across the border<\/strong> over the past few days have emerged as a major security concern, prompting the deployment of additional forces at vulnerable locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intensified patrolling, area domination exercises and night surveillance<\/strong> are being conducted to prevent infiltration attempts or airdropping of arms and narcotics, officials added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Security forces on Wednesday stepped up an ongoing search operation by extending the cordon to track down and neutralise terrorists in the remote forested areas of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64748","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}