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NEW DELHI, SEP 24
Over 1,000 trained Kashmiri terrorists are "currently stranded" in three camps of the Hizbul Mujahedeen in the Hazara region of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), according to a media report.
"Of these (three camps), the Hisari and Batrasi camps are located in Mansehra district while a third camp is located in Boi in district Abbottabad," The Herald magazine reported.
It quoted unnamed sources to say that thousands of other terrorists were confined in camps run by half a dozen smaller Kashmiri groups or predominantly Pakistani outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and al-Badr Mujahideen in the frontier and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir regions.
The report quoted an unnamed Islamabad-based militant leader as saying that the top brass of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had "conveyed to the Kashmiri militant leaders in January 2006 that they should not even think of crossing the Line of Control (LoC), armed or unarmed".
It said the ISI functionaries "who had earlier worked with the militants have been asked to run routine checks to ascertain the whereabouts of the Kashmiri guides and porters who helped militants infiltrate" into India in the past.
The recent decision to stop "official funding" of these outfits has rung alarm bells among jehadis, many of whom are now fleeing to their villages in Jammu and Kashmir, getting caught or surrendering to Indian armed forces.
However, the magazine quoted former ISI Chief Gen (retired) Hamid Gul as saying that "General Pervez Musharraf's decisions (to contain these terrorist outfits) do not necessarily reflect the army's vision".
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