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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 1 : Of late militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons, were trying to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir for giving teeth to the ongoing subversive violence, which otherwise has touched new low during the last one year.
Senior police functionaries said that from middle of June onwards groups of militants were making desperate attempts at infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir. They said it was a matter of surprise hat between March and May no infiltration bids had been made by the militants when during the last 20 years the rate of ingress would pick from March onwards.
Police sources said that during the last one fortnight as many as nine infiltration bids had been foiled by the troops who have been directed to step up border patrolling. They said that on July 27 militants had made a determined bid to cross into Kashmir from across Kupwara sector but were forced to beat a hasty retreat. In the encounter one JCO was killed and two soldiers were injured.
The infiltration bid and the consequent exchange of fire took place at a time when Pakistan Foreign Minister,Hina Rabbani Khar ,was engaged in an official dialogue with her counterpart, S.M. Krishna, in New Delhi.
Despite the infiltration bid having been foiled on July 30 another bid was made by militants to cross into Kashmir from across Kupwara.
Again the troops foiled the bid and in doing so three soldiers were killed and two other jawans were injured.
Police sources said that about 700 militants have been brought on the launching pads across Kupwara, Keran, Gurez, Tangdhar, Poonch,Rajouri and in various sectors across the International Border in Jammu.
The main purpose was to push them into Jammu and Kashmir so that militants, operating in the state, did not feel the pinch of manpower shortage which had been responsible for marked drop in the subversive activities and violence.
While on one hands troops, guarding the LOC and the IB, have been told to plug all the conventional an unconventional ingress routes security forces have been directed to step up their counter insurgency operations. Such operations in the last three weeks have yielded dividends when more than 20 top militants, belonging to the Lashkar -i-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen, in north Kashmir, Kishtwar -Doda belt were eliminated. Half a dozen militants were arrested forcing the terrorists to lie low.(KIP)
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