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| Due to their knowledge of border topography, Kashmiris in Pak militant camps act as guides | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Dec 11: Mainly because of their deep knowledge of the topography on this side of the Line of Control (LoC), many of the Kashmiri youth, who are camping in militant training camps across the border, have been chosen to act as guides for the Pak ultras as and when they are pushed into the Indian territory to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir.
Kashmiris are well-versed with the safer infiltration routes and can be of great help to the infiltrating militants to avoid army contact. They can take the infiltrators from the areas where there is less, or almost no presence of troops.
The decision to engage Kashmiris as guides was taken by militant commanders in Pakistan after the killing of infiltrating militants at the hands of Indian border troops on several occasions in the past, official sources said, quoting intelligence inputs.
In the absence of guides, 16 Pakistani militants, who had sneaked into Akhnoor here some time back, got killed by troops in a gunbattle in Rajouri. They did not know the route and hence lost way which ultimately resulted in their killing, the sources added.
Militants, who had infiltrated into India from Kupwara in Kashmir without guides some time ago, also got killed after they had walked into army cordons, sources said.
Sources said as per the latest information gathered by intelligence agencies, militants in
Pakistan were now trying to infiltrate into India with the help of Kashmiri guides. "Pak militants have been looking for Kashmiri guides to recruit them in their outfits," the sources added.
Mohammad Ashraf (24), a HM militant-cum-trainer, who was in May last year held by army near the fencing at Sawjian in Poonch along with his wife Asima (22), had told his interrogators that hundreds of misguided Kashmiri youth were receiving training in different militant training camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Sources said most of these Kashmiri youth had been engaged by militant outfits, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, HM and Harkat-ul-Jehad-Islami, as guides.
Ashraf, a resident of Budgam in Kashmir, and 25 other Kashmiri youth had exfiltrated to PoK in 1999 from a Poonch border. |
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