In this episode of The Syllabus of Life, Col. Hemonto Panging returns for Part 3 with Ex-IRS Ravi Kapoor — and this time, the story moves into 1997, the year Pakistan pushed its most hardened foreign fighters into the Poonch-Rajouri sector.With no intelligence, no drones and an alienated population, Col. Panging and his men of 9 Para SF hunted terrorists the old way — night marches in rain and fog, hideouts in dhoks, fooling village dogs, and pure gut instinct. From the rainy-night operation that eliminated Shahji, the most feared terror commander of the sector, to the discovery of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile meant to shoot down an Indian aircraft, to the covert helicopter insertion that ended Abu Zubair — the terrorist who burned 30 Gujjars alive — these are operations that never reached the public.The episode also features the most unfiltered rapid-fire ever recorded on this channel: what it feels like to kill a terrorist, the Prankot massacre and its retaliation, why 9 Para are called ghost operators, and finally, the Colonel's philosophy on family, discipline, purpose and his message to India's youth.We also lost brave men in these operations. Havildar Jyot Singh and Naik Neelkanth Reddy laid down their lives for the nation. This episode is a tribute to them.

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