Territorial Army Asked To Assist Indian Forces As Tensions Skyrocket After Pakistan's Drone Attacks
Tensions with Pakistan have skyrocketed after Pahalgam terror attack and Pakistan's attempts to strike Indian civilian and military targets following May 7 retaliation.
Operation Sindoor: The Territorial Army, known as the second line of defence, has been asked to assist the Indian forces amid skyrocketing cross-border tensions with Pakistan following a barrage of drone attacks into the bordering states last night.
As Operation Sindoor is underway, the Centre, in an order which was notified on May 8, said that it has empowered Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi to exercise the powers under the Rule – 33 of the Territorial Army Rule 1948, to “call out every officer and every enrolled person of the Territorial Army to provide for essential guard or to be embodied for the purpose of supporting or supplementing the regular army".
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“Out of the existing 32 Infantry Battalions (Territorial Army), embodiment of 14 Infantry Battalions (Territorial Army) for deployment in the areas of Southern Command, Eastern Command, Western Command, Central Command, Northern Command, South Western Command, Andaman and Nicobar Command and Army Training Command (ARTRAC)," the statement said.
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On Thursday evening, Pakistan resorted to a major escalation and fired its drones and missiles into parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan. Indian air defence systems — S-400 and Akash — downed all of them midair before they could strike their intended targets in India, except for one drone which managed to make a fall on the Jammu Civil Airport.
India launched counter-strikes and dispatched its drones into Islamabad, Lahore and Sialkot. Pakistan also targeted village areas in Jammu and Kashmir with its artillery strikes and firing, making a mockery of the ceasefire. The Indian Army retaliated swiftly, the officials said.
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