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| Troops asked to take adequate anti-infiltration measures | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 5: Senior functionaries of the police and the paramilitary forces have been asked not to lower the guard following reports that besides expected step up in the level of infiltration militants, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, getting ready for being on the offensive. During the last six months the incidents of militancy related violence had dropped by 30 to 35 per cent when compared to the corresponding period last year.
The decline has been the result of instructions given to the militants to lie low in view of the repeated attempts having been made by the people in the valley to stage protests in the streets.
The militants had instructions not to do anything which could upset the ongoing peoples' resistance programme.
Now that the police has taken stringent measures against those indulging in stone pelting militants have been directed to intensify their activities.
Troops guarding the LOC and the BSF deployed on the International Border have been directed to take in hand adequate measures which could prevent militants, waiting on the launching pads across the border, from sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports reaching Jammu have indicated that more than 10 new infiltration routes have been identified with the help of the border smugglers.
And during the last three months these very routes had been adopted by the infiltrators. Another instruction to the troops and the BSF is that they should concentrate their anti-infiltration exercise on the International Border as during the last six months more than 25 infiltration bids in this sector had been foiled by the BSF.
Reports said that the Indian authorities have fears that in case the Pakistan Army intensified their campaign against the Talibans and other extremists some groups of terrorist may at tempt at crossing into Jammu and Kashmir to evade arrest and elimination by the Pak forces.
Hence additional gadgets, especially sensors, were being installed on the border to monitor the movement of infiltrators.
Official sources said that over 70 per cent infiltration bids had been foiled by the Indian troops after they had spotted movement of infiltrators on the sensors.
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