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Now ISI wants terror camps within J&K
JAMMU: In view of the "large-scale" killing of infiltrating militants by Indian Army along the Line of Control, Pakistan's ISI has directed militant outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir to set up local arms training camps within the state, BSF sources said on Wednesday."Increasing number of messages pouring in from Pakistan-based top commanders and ISI to militant outfits are directing them to setup local training camps and train more boys locally," the sources said here. After suffering heavy casualties along the LoC and International Border (IB), ISI bosses and top commanders of Pakistan-based militant outfits, including Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others, have asked their cadres to establish camps in the Pir Panjal ranges which spread across the state from Poonch to Kupwara, they said. The sources said BSF and other security agencies have intercepted at least 37 such messages from different outfits during last one month. These intercepts reveal that top Pak-based commanders are upset as most of militants infiltrated by them into J and K through Poonch-Rajouri, Kupwara and Baramulla area had been killed, the sources said. Pointing out that it had become difficult for militants to cross-over to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan as security in the area had been beefed up, the sources said 32 militants had been killed along the LoC in the last one week. "Due to this, militant outfits are busy in the process of setting up local training camps in most difficult Pir Panjal ranges in Poonch-Rajouri-Gool-Doda belt of Jammu division," the sources said. One such camp was destroyed when Army troops killed 13 militants in Bharat forests during a command council meeting in Doda on Tuesday, they said, adding that the security agencies were busy mapping the presence of more such camps. Posted by: rg117 2003-04-30 |
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