The road to the battle zone is desolate and littered with rocks and boulders with hardly any sign of human life. Columns of army trucks carrying heavily-armed soldiers to the Shala Bhata break the eerie calm. Several kilometers up on the mountains, a nerve-racking situation prevails with the army preparing for a kill to cleanse the area off infiltrators.br br Brigade-size troops backed by fresh reinforcements of Special Forces are now eyeball to eyeball with 30 to 40 well-entrenched Pakistani militants and special troops, who are receiving regular supplies from across the Line of Control to sustain and take on the might of the Indian Army.