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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 29: Army today said nearly 2,500 armed militants were ready in Pakistan training camps to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir."2,000 to 2,500 armed militants in Pakistan training camps are ready to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir," Brigadier General of Staff (BGS), 16 Corps, Brig Gurdeep Singh told reporters at Nagrota Corps headquarters here.
He said there were approximately 42 training camps across the border out of which 34 were active.
The BGS, who displayed the Pakistan-made recoveries from two slain Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Rajouri district on Saturday before the media, said, "It shows complicity of our neighbour. Who has provided the two Pak militants Thuraya Satellite phone? Who provided militants Global Positioning System (GPS)?"
"They are registered with government and are not available in market so easily," he said.
This showed that someone in Pakistan got them registered and later handed them over to terrorists, he added.
"Most of the recoveries point to the involvement of our neigbour. Two Nokia mobile sets with 2 sim cards of Juzz and Tenor mobile companies of Pakistan, perfume brands of Haji Gulzareen Khashbu
House of Peshawar (Pak), Star high nutrition mixer of Multan road Lahore, Mosquito repellent of Karachi and a 2 GB MP3 player (Pak made)," he added.
While militants were desperate to cross onto this side, a security grid was put in place to foil their design and stop infiltration, he said, adding that troops were alert to ensure that no infiltration takes place.
Referring to the infiltration by 6 to 7 militants in Akhnoor belt few days back, he said two militants had been neutralized and a hunt was on for the rest.
"All measures were being taken to eliminate that group. We will use helicopters to ferry troops whereever militants are located for speedy operation," the BGS said.
On the number of militants in the state, he said 200 to 250 militants, 50 per cent of them foreign mercenaries, were operating in Jammu region and nearly 300 in Kashmir.
He said, "we are also focused on over ground workers (OGWs) and facilitated their arrest under a pro-active policy to target OGWs of militants".
To a question about the presence of suicide teams on the LOC, he said no such report had been received by them but militants used fidayeen squads.
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