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| Hizbul Mujahideen plans infiltration into J&K | | Kalashnikovs, grenades, rocket launchers in pipeline | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: Fresh intelligence reports, now being examined by the government of India, while making a pointed referfence to the plans of the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen to send additional batches of infiltrators into Jammu and Kashmir, say that large quantities of Kalashnikovs and grenades, besides an uncspecified number of rocket launchers, can be expected in the troubled Indian State in the coming weeks.
Hizbul Mujahideen supremo, Salahuddin, said to be shuttling between Rawalpindi and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for the past two months, has been reported to be planning to send over 200 Hizbul operatives into Kashmir in the coming weeks. Intelligence agencies have reportedly intercepted dozens of satellite telephone conversations between Hizbul Mujahideen operatives in India and Pakistan. Exact contents of the intercepted conversations have not bneen officially disclosed.
However, according to informed sources, there is suficient evidence with the government agencies, particularly the military intelligence (MI) in conection with the Hizbul Mujahideen's plans to expand its terror operations. These sources say that a fresh infiltration into Jamu and Kashmir is being planed by the Hizbul Mujahideen.
The Union Home Ministry is examining intelligence reports about the Hizb's exact strength in different parts of Kashmir, which include Kupwara and Baramula in the north, Pulwama and Anantnag in south of Srinagar and Poonch and Udhampur just beyond the Kashmir Valley. With more than 1,700 armed and a 1,000 unarmed Mujahideen, Salahuddin, though operating from Pakistan and Pakistan ocupied Kashmir (PoK), can clearly strike at will.
Sources said that the Home Ministry was also in the possession of inputs vis-a-vis the number of armed and unarmed mujahideen in various parts of Jammu and Kashmir. According to these inputs, Kupwara accounted for 145 armed and 100 unarmed mujahideen as against 244 armed and 150 unarmed Islamist strikers in Baramulla sector. Pulwama accounts for 186 armed and 135 unarmed mujahideen as against 233 armed and 148 unarmed rebels in Anantnag.
As police and security as well as intelligence agencies have already confirmed the existence in Jammu region of groups of militants and foreign mercenaries, the Hizbul Mujahideen, too, has, over the years, managed to entrench itself in parts of Poonch and Udhampur districts. Poonch accounts for 130 armed and 60 unarmed mujahideen as against 180 armed and 95 unarmed mujahideen in Udhampur sector.
If intelligence reports are to be believed, there seems to be a sustained pattern in the way Hizbul Mujahideen operates and this may be yet another attempt to buy time only to launch fresh attacks yet again. And a set of latest intelligence reports clearly suggest that the Hizbul Mujahideen is actually expanding base
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