Author: IANS
Publication: the Economic Times
Date: May 9, 2011
URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/terrorist-camps-operating-in-pakistan-held-kashmir-indian-army/articleshow/8206552.cms
Guerrilla training camps are still active
across the Line of Control (LOC) in the Pakistan-administered part of Jammu
and Kashmir, the Indian Army said here Monday.
"Militant training camps are still active
across the LOC ," Major General Ravi Thodge, general-officer-commanding
of the counter-insurgency Kilo Force in the Valley, told reporters in Handwara
in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, some 85 km from here.
"The militants can try to sneak into
the Valley in small groups this summer, but our troops are vigilant to defeat
any such infiltration bid," he added.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition along
with other logistic support equipment were displayed at the press conference.
The arms and ammunition were seized by personnel
of the 6 Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir Police in the dense Haphruda
forests in Kupwara, Thodge said.
Eight AK-56 rifles, four AK-47 rifles, one
under barrel grenade launcher (UBGL), eight UBGL grenades, 694 rounds of AK
ammunition, 40 grenades, one radio set with antenna, 20 remote-control improvised
explosive device (IED) boxes and 15 electric detonators, among other ammunition
and equipment, have been recovered.
"This is a major haul of arms and ammunition
recovered in the recent past and the recovery has thwarted the evil designs
of terrorists in north Kashmir," Thodge added.
