{"id":353338,"date":"2025-04-15T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=353338"},"modified":"2025-04-15T03:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:04:22","slug":"fresh-gunbattle-erupts-in-jks-poonch-army-police-launch-search-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fresh-gunbattle-erupts-in-jks-poonch-army-police-launch-search-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh gunbattle erupts in J&#038;K\u2019s Poonch, Army, Police launch search operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/04\/Fresh-gunbattle-erupts-in-JKs-Poonch-Army-Police-launch-search-operation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353339\" width=\"402\" height=\"225\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A fresh encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Poonch district on Sunday evening, prompting a large-scale anti-militancy operation in the Pir Panjal valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Army officials, security personnel made contact with the militants during a joint operation with the Jammu and Kashmir Police in the Lasana area of Surankote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdditional troops have been rushed to the area, and the search operation is underway to prevent any attempt by the militants to escape,\u201d the Army said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the exact number of militants present in the area is not yet known, officials said the operation remains active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes amid heightened tensions in the Jammu region, where five militants and four policemen have been killed in a series of encounters over the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Poonch district on Sunday evening, prompting a large-scale anti-militancy operation in the Pir Panjal valley. According to Army officials, security personnel made contact with the militants during a joint operation with the Jammu and Kashmir Police in the Lasana area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":353339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16632,18371,16561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353341,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353338\/revisions\/353341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/353339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}