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| Troops told to be vigilant and to foil infiltration bids at all costs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 26
Troops guarding the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir have been asked to strengthen the security grid on the border following reports that agencies across the LoC and the International Border were trying to push into the state groups of militants, most of them foreign mercenaries, for giving teeth to the ongoing "jehad".
Official sources today said that a large number of militants have been brought from the arms training camps, where they had been imparted training in handling of sophisticated weapons and in hurling of grenades and planting of IEDs and mines, to the launching pads across Kupwara, Keran, Gurez, Tangdhar, Poonch and Rajouri for the purpose of sending them into Jammu and Kashmir.
Government agencies in Pakistan have fears that the militants trained in camps could create some security problem if their services were not utilised for kicking up subversive violence in Jammu and Kashmir. And Islamabad may not wish to face any such problem when its over 30,000 soldiers and officers were engaged in a fierce battle against over 12,000 Talibans and the men of Al Qaeda in south Waziristan.
According to these official sources, agencies across the LoC wish to push into Jammu and Kashmir as many militants as possible before the border routes became impassable owing to heavy snow. Hence not more than two months are left at the disposal of the Pak agencies for aiding infiltration of militants into Jammu and Kashmir. These agencies have been told that the man and machine power of the militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir had started depleting because of sustained operations launched by the security forces in which scores of field commanders had been eliminated in recent weeks. These agencies have apprehensions that once these militants felt that no material support was coming from across the LoC they may be forced to surrender.
It is in this connection that the security forces have been directed to intensify anti-insurgency operations within the state and to take effective steps for plugging unconventional infiltration routes. Another instruction issued to the intelligence agencies was to coordinate their efforts for collecting exact and specific information on the plans, hideouts and on the overground support of militants so that the security forces carried out operations against the rebels without causing any inconvenience to the civilians.
Yet another suggestion to the state and the central Government from the security and intelligence agencies was to initiate measures for the rehabilitation of those militants who had surrendered before the security forces, months and years ago. This suggestion has been given following reports that field commanders of various militant groups were trying to lure these former militants back to their parent organisations so that they could make things difficult for the Government.
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