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'LeT training women militants'
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has a full-fledged training camp for women militants situated 6 km from Muridke on GT Road between Lahore and Rawalpindi, with infrastructure to provide rigorous training to cadres in guerrilla warfare, an intelligence report has said. Giving details of the Lashkar's women brigade, the report says these militants are imparted 21-day training in handling arms and ammunition, besides swimming and jehadi discourses. The special course, called 'Daura-e-Sofa,' is given to women cadres drawn from madrassas in PoK and the Kashmir Valley. The trainee militants are housed in a double-storeyed building situated in the camp premises. The intelligence report says the LeT's women-training camp is headed by a 45-year-old woman jehadi, Umi Hamad, a Pakistani national. The presence of women militants in the LeT ranks was first detected late last year when a 20-year-old woman militant - Khalida Akhtar - was held in Srinagar. However, details of the location and infrastructure of the militant camp emerged from interrogation of other LeT militants who had surrendered before security forces in January-February this year. Akhtar had told intelligence sleuths that Lashkar was raising a band of women militants of Kashmiri origin and providing them ideological and arms training in the camps situated in PoK. The emergence of women militants had created ripples in security forces and counter-intelligence sleuths had briefed authorities on the chances of these militants being used as honey traps to infiltrate the ranks of paramilitary forces deployed in Kashmir. The claims made by counter-intelligence sleuths were based on facts that emerged from Akhtar's interrogation. Her questioning revealed that one of her primary tasks was to trap army officers and jawans to monitor troops' movements and operations. Posted by: Fred 2007-04-06 |
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