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| No tunnel dug across LoC: Army | |
| 2009-08-04 | |
| The Army has termed as "imagination" a newspaper report that suggested its Pakistani counterpart and militants trained by it had dug out a tunnel linking their side of the Line of Control (LoC) with that of India in Jammu and Kashmir's Pallanwalla sector of Akhnoor tehsil. The tunnel, report said, was meant for pushing in militants but collapsed following overnight heavy rains. "I don't know who has seen the tunnel. It must have been imagination," said a Jammu-based defence spokesperson. He added, "There is no truth in the report you may have read in one of the newspapers today."
It said that the tunnel linking the PoK territory with the fencing area on Indian side of the LoC at village Chaprayal was detected by the Indian troops when it collapsed on Monday. It added that the talk about the existence of a tunnel from near Pakistan army's Mango post up to Indian side of fencing at Chaprayal had first surfaced during questioning of two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants captured in Kupwara district of Kashmir Valley in July this year. These are the same militants who had reportedly also revealed a Pakistan plot to target Baglihar hydroelectric in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district. According to the newspaper, while one reports said that security forces had detected the tunnel after disclosures by the Lashkar militants but remained silent as they wanted to capture the infiltrators alive when they use the tunnel to sneak into Indian territory, the other said that existence of tunnel was known only on Monday (August 3) when it collapsed following heavy rains overnight. | |
| Posted by:john frum |