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| No let up in infiltration attempts in J&K | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 27: As many as 470 infiltration bids were made by Pak-based militants this year, which is marginally lesser than the 485 reported in the previous year in Jammu and Kashmir.
Around 125 militants were eliminated during the year near the Line of Control (LoC) while trying to sneak into the border districts of Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in North Kashmir, official sources said.
There was no let up in attempts by Pakistan to push in as many ultras as possible to fuel violence in the border state this year, the sources added. Sources said dozens of militants were eliminated in attempts to infiltrate along the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts and other areas along the International Border (IB) in Jammu region.
Infiltration, which was at its peak in the early and mid-1990s, had come down post 2003 when a Composite dialogue between India and Pakistan was started and the Centre had also initiated talks with separatist leaders in Kashmir. However, Pakistani handlers started pushing in militants in large numbers again following breakdown in the talks between the two countries in the wake of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, the
sources added.
In 2003, 1,373 infiltration bids were recorded. The next year saw a sharp decline of over 60 per cent when only 537 bids were recorded. There was no change in infiltration attempts over the next three years but a further decline was witnessed in 2008 when 342 bids took place - the lowest since militancy erupted in the state over two
decades back.
DGP Kuldeep Khoda had said an estimated 100 militants managed to dodge vigilant forces along the LoC in 2010. The first major infiltration bid during the year took place in March when the areas close to LoC were still covered by several feet of
snow. Army shot dead six infiltrators in Kupwara district. Smaller groups of two to three militants continued attempts to infiltrate from Kupwara, Gurez and Uri sectors throughout the year as the larger groups were getting noticed easily by choppers used
for aerial surveillance along the LoC.
As militants were finding it difficult to get reliable local guides for crossing the LoC, they started using GPS for cross-border infiltration and locating safer routes in Jammu and Kashmir. Several high-end GPS equipments were recovered from some of the infiltrating
militants killed this year.
The other major infiltration bids took place in April and May in which nearly two dozen militants were killed. However, the biggest infiltration bid took place in first week of September when a large group of militants tried to sneak into the Valley through Gurez sector in Bandipora district. As many as 14 militants and two soldiers were killed in the operation lasting nearly two weeks.
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