Explaining the operational plans of the Army, he said: ``We are trying to neutralise all enemy military targets that are interfering with our operations in Kargil. For instance, we have destroyed their camp-cum-administrative base in the `Skardu region' with our artillery fire.''

He,nevertheless, pointed out that this military installation is located close to the Line of Control (LoC) in the Skardu region and not Skardu town which is about 70 km from the LoC.

``Launching of fire assaults using artillery and mortars is an on-going process. We identify and analyse such targets which interfere with our military action to evict the intruders and carry out fire assaults,'' he added, hinting the shelling is likely to continue for some time.

Fierce hand-to-hand gun battles are also currently on in the Drass and Batalik sub-sectors. In north of Tololing, Drass sub-sector, Indian troops destroyed four Sangars (fortifications) -- constructed of stone, mortar and plaster -- manned by the Pakistan Army intruders. And in other areas, manouevres are on to ``isolate and encircle the enemy and choke their supply lines''.

At least six army personnel were killed and seven injured during the operations. There were eight casualties among the Pak intruders. So far 313 Pakistan Army intruders have beenkilled during Operation Vijay. The Indian side has lost 112 army personnel. Another 249 are wounded and eight are still missing in action.

In the mopping-up operations after the destruction of the fortifications, north of Tololing, the body of a Pakistani soldier was recovered and initial identification revealed that he is Naik Mohammad Noor from the Northern light infantry. Efforts are on to identify his unit. The army also seized three universal machine guns and a large quantity of ammunition from the area. No air attacks were, however, carried out today. But Air Force spokesperson D.N. Ganesh said recce missions in the battle zone were on and that air strikes would resume as soon as the army puts in a request. Meanwhile, Lt Gen. Avtar Singh, Director General of the Army's Rashtriya Rifles, has been appointed the new security advisor to the J&K government and will be part of the unified command that is overseeing counter-insurgency operations in the state. He will be functioning from an independentheadquarter. And besides personnel from the Rashtriya Rifles, he will also command 20 battalions of the Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force.

The reshuffle comes in the wake of involvement of the Army in Kargil region to evict Pakistani intruders. Lt Gen. Singh replaces the two commanders of the 15 and 16 Corps, who had been acting as security advisors to the J&K government till now. The latter will now concentrate only on the Kargil operations.

In the counter-insurgency operations -- `Operation Rakshak' -- in the Kashmir Valley, 29-year-old Captain Deepak Guleria of Rashtriya Rifles along with four jawans were killed on Friday. Ten others were wounded.