New Delhi:
Intelligence agencies have alerted the security forces that nearly 300 trained militants are waiting along the Line of Control (LoC) to cross over ahead of Independence Day and create trouble.
Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the Intelligence agencies had sounded alert that the militants were looking to cross over from Kupwara, Gurez, Bandipora, and Uri in the North Pir Panjal of the Kashmir valley. Movements of such militants had also been seen along the LoC near Samba and Rajouri-Poonch in Jammu, they added.
Even as security forces have reasonably been successful in stemming infiltration bids along the LoC in Kupwara and south of Pir Panjal, sources in the security establishment said the armed forces were aware that they couldn’t lower the guard both in Jammu and the Kashmir Valley, particularly when they have been alerted “ISI and terror groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed are waiting for an opportunity to look for gaps in the security grid to disrupt the peace in the Valley”.
In view of the heightened threat, the security agencies have been asked to remain on a high vigil, particularly on Eid, Rakshabandhan, and Independence Day. Officials in the security establishment said two militants were killed at the LoC on July 11 while attempting to infiltrate. Three militants were injured on June 30 in a similar attempt. Both attempts were made from Pakistani posts, Chakpatra or Tariq under Mandal sector (Leepa Valley), opposite Tungdhar sector, they said. -TNS
