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Govt fears surge in infiltration
Date: 14 May 2008
With intelligence reports holding that there are at least 40 terrorist training camps still "active" in Pakistan, India fears an upsurge in infiltration and violence levels in a bid to disrupt the forthcoming Amarnath yatra and elections in Jammu & Kashmir. Even as defence minister A K Antony asked the security forces to step up their vigil against attempts by "our enemies to destroy the peace process" in J&K, a high-level meeting at the PMO on Tuesday decided to rush more BSF and CRPF troops to the Valley. This is considered necessary since latest intelligence reports, collated from radio intercepts and interrogation of apprehended terrorists and the like, indicate there are still 18 terrorist-training camps operational in Pakistan, 20 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and two in the Northern Areas.
[courtesy: Times of India]
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