OPERATION PARAKRAM

Neelam and Gurez sector in the northern parts of Jammu and Kashmir is dominated by kishenganga river, the beautiful neelam valley and a series of ridges that run almost parallel to the line of control between the state of J&K and Pakistan occupied Kashmir(pok). The town of kel in pok is a cantonment from where an audacious operation has been launched by pakistani special services group(SSG) in tandem with mujahids to occupy positions on a ridge line  about 800 meters inside Indian territory.

Unlike Kargil,the Indian Army detected the intrusion early enough towards late July 2002. Indian Army while continuing to plan an assault on the position, asked the Indian Air force to attack the positions prior to the ground assault, in early august, four Mirage 2000s armed with laser guided and conventional bombs attacked the position, destroyed the Sangars(temporary bunkers), and causing an immediate withdrawal by SSG and mujahids force from the position. This operation to evict the intruders from point 3260 in the Machil-Neelam-Gurez sector is called operation PARAKRAM.