The recovery also included 81 balloons with marking of ‘I Love Pakistan’ with Pakistani flag marked on it along with five gunny bags with Pakistani markings.
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In a major success, the Indian Army and the J&K Police have recovered a huge cache of Chinese and Pakistani grenades, AK rifles and Chinese pistols from the along the Line of Control (LOC) in north Kashmir’s Uri.
A defence spokesman said on Sunday that based on intelligence inputs received from multiple agencies over a period of two weeks about infiltration attempts and dumping of war-like stores by terrorists in general area Hathlanga of Rampur sector, multiple ambushes and search operations along the Line of Control were conducted.
A joint search operation along with the JKP was launched in general area of Hathlanga of Rustam Battalion, Rampur Brigade, which lasted for about eight hours and concluded with the recovery of arms, ammunition and other war like stores along the Line of Control.
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The search operation yielded recovery of heavy quantity of war like stores, which included eight AK series rifles along with 24 magazines and 560 live rounds, 12 Chinese pistols along with 24 magazines and 244 live rounds, nine Chinese hand grenades and five Pakistani hand grenades.
The recovery also included 81 balloons with marking of ‘I Love Pakistan’ with Pakistani flag marked on it along with five gunny bags with Pakistani markings.
The successful conduct of the operation depicts excellent synergy amongst security forces and various intelligence agencies working in the union territory of J&K, the spokesman added.
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