The SSG is a Pakistan Army special operations force that parallels the U.S. Army's Special Forces and the British Army's SAS. The SSG, headquartered in Cherat, is headed by a Major-General and has ten battalions, of which the actual strength is unknown. Pakistan's western borders with Afghanistan have been the focus of SSG anti-terrorism activities recently, and SSG(N) personnel took part in the PNS mehran operation. In the operation at the general headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Navy took part. Islamic militants have been combated in Pakistani cities like the siege of the Lal Masjid. India believes that Pakistan's Baloch Regiment led the assault on the Line of Control in January 2013 and that elite troops killed Indian soldiers and beheaded them.