Udhampur, Gurdaspur attack: Army, police launch joint search on Punjab-JK border area

Police and Army personnel on Sunday launched a massive search operation in Dhar block and nearby areas, close to Gurdaspur district which witnessed terror strike last month. The search operation started in the afternoon, Pathankot SSP, R K Bakshi said, but denied apprehension of presence of terrorists in the Pathankot-Jammu border area. "We were not acting on any specific input..." the SSP said.

Senior police officials including IG Lok Nath Angra, DIG Kunwar Vijay Partap, SSP Bakhshi and about 200 personnel of police and the Army cordoned off Ladeti village of Dhar block here. Dhar block in Pathankot also borders on neighbouring Himachal Pradesh. The search was also conducted in the surrounding areas of the Dhar block, the SSP said, adding so far nothing has been found.

Notably, prior to the Udhampur terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir, heavily armed terrorists had also struck in Dinanagar town of Pathankot's adjoining Gurdaspur district last month.