Encounters in Kashmir are on the increase, taking a disproportionate toll on security personnel

The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a cops officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to, among other things, a hard summertime ahead. On Saturday afternoon, receiving intelligence that terrorists were present in a house in Changimulla village, Colonel Ashutosh Sharma of 21 Rashtriya