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| Gen Kapoor told NSA Jones in 2009 that Pak, PoK had 43 terror camps | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: In 2009, former army chief, Gen Deepak Kapoor had told the then US national security advisor (NSA) James Jones that there were 43 terror camps in Pakistan, 22 of which were located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a diplomatic cable unveiled by
whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has revealed. According to the leaked cable, during a meeting between senior US and Indian officials on June 26, 2009, Gen Kapoor told Jones that the "Pakistani military's statements regarding the Indian threat on
its eastern border are wholly without merit. Even after the 11/26 terrorist strikes on Mumbai, he emphasized, India did not make any move of a threatening nature towards Pakistan."
"Kapoor said there are 43 terror camps in Pakistan, 22 of which are located in PoK. Although the Pakistanis raided some camps in the wake of 11/26, Kapoor averred, some camps have reinitiated operations," said the document, which was classified as 'secret'.
It said the Indian army chief "further asserted infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) cannot occur unless there is some kind of assistance and/or degree of support that is institutional in nature. He described several incidents of infiltration that occurred this
year, including that of 40 terrorists in March who were found possessing significant ammunition and other equipment." He said India was worried that some part of the huge US military package to Pakistan would "find its way to the hands of terrorists
targeting India,".
Furthermore, if "we can catch them (the infiltrators), why can't the Pakistani military?" the cable quoted Gen Kapoor, as saying. "There's a trust deficit between the US and Pakistan but there's also one between India and Pakistan," he stressed.
When Jones asked him "how the Pakistanis react when the Indians confront them with these incidents," Kapoor replied that the Pakistanis "remain in denial mode, but fortunately today India's counter-infiltration posture is stronger than in the past."
Asked about the percentage of infiltrators that get through, Gen Kapoor "estimated between 15 to 20 per cent, but cited the challenge posed by India's open border with Nepal," and asserted that this year (2009), at least 16 terrorists entered India through Nepal and then travelled to Kashmir. Throughout his remarks, Kapoor stressed
that infiltration bids were "acts of aggression," said the cable, whose subject was "NSA Jones discusses US-India security.Regarding terrorist camps in Pakistan, Jones told defence minister A K Antony and Gen Kapoor that the US "will take up the issue with Pakistan."
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