Indian Army’s Northern Army Commander Lieutenant Pratik Sharma on Thursday visited and reviewed operational preparedness in forward areas in Jammu and Kashmir. He praised the personnel for their high state of logistic readiness to sustain multi-domain operational demands.
“Lieutenant General Pratik Sharma, Army Commander Northern Command, visited an operational logistics unit, reviewing the operational and logistics transformation being undertaken with the vision of boosting operational readiness,” the Army’s Northern Command headquarters said on X.
He also appreciated the automation initiatives, highlighting the role of tech-driven logistics in modern warfare.
The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) commended the personnel for their high state of logistic readiness, automated functioning and capacity to sustain multi-domain operational demands.
The warfare in Jammu and Kashmir has evolved to unprecedented levels over the past decade alone. Whether it was in terms of militancy glorified on social media platforms, typically by the Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, who was killed in August 2016 in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, which transformed the entire landscape of renewed forms of militancy in the region.
In 2025, security forces are facing a “technologically infused wave of militancy”, particularly in the Jammu region, which has evolved post-abrogation of Article 370 from the erstwhile state.
There are four prominent outfits which are active in the region: The Resistance Front (TRF), the People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), the Kashmir Tigers, and the Muslim Janbaz Force, which are driving the recent surge in violence across the Kashmir Valley.
Three of them have been notified as terrorist organisations under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in 2023 by the government of India. The fourth one, since very little is known, has not been involved in any major attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to reports, they are constantly uploading extremist content online, aimed at influencing public discourse in the region and spreading false propaganda to recruit the youth into terror ranks.
In 2025, the intensified operations by the Jammu and Kashmir police, along with security forces, have successfully brought down the local recruits to single digits.
Meanwhile, the reports also indicate the digital footprints of these militant organisations are spread across mainstream social media, chat rooms and websites to the darknet.
These four outfits have evolved from older, notorious groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba and are now intensifying their activities along a volatile border shared with Pakistan, reports say.
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