Despite peace overtures, India levelled serious charges against Pakistan on Tuesday, alleging that there were more than 40 training camps in Pakistan for militants who make regular attempts to cross the heavily fortified de factor border between the countries.
However, its top security man has also said that there have been no cases of infiltration this year.
India says it has identified 25 camps in Pakistani administered Kashmir and 17 in Pakistan containing around 2,500 militants, Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran told parliament in a written reply today.
“The terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan or Pakistan-administered Kashmir remains intact and infiltration attempts from across the border still continue to pose a challenge to the security forces,” Ramachandran alleged.
He charged that Pakistan-based militants – with the alleged support of Pakistan’s army – have made 249 attempts to sneak into “Indian territory” so far this year – two more than last year but far below the 489 in 2010.
Intelligence inputs indicate “active support” of Pakistani intelligence and security agencies to push terrorists into India, the minister added.
The border area – particularly the Jammu region in Indian-administered Kashmir – “is highly vulnerable to infiltration from Pakistan side”, he further alleged.
But due to a “high degree of alertness, BSF (Border Security Force) personnel foil every attempt of infiltration by Pakistani terrorists. There has been no case of infiltration by terrorists,” Ramachandran said.
The lack of successful infiltration attempts was due to better border management, including border fencing and better intelligence, he said.
Separatist violence in Indian Kashmir has dropped over the last few years but occasional gunfights still erupt between militants and the security forces in the scenic Himalayan region.
(With additional input from AFP)
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2012.
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@Clear Black Bag: There is no need for evidence from India.It is there within Pakistan and if you look around you will see how actively and energetically they are killing Hindus,Christians,ahmadiyas and Sufi.can India match this evidence.Nope
Way to go ET
First you write Indian minister's statement as accusation and then put up a picture of bearded and capped men wielding guns with same statement from Indian minister as caption.
Oh wait!! the picture is a conspiracy of Indian Zionist agencies. The beard on these men are made of pigs hair and oh oh oh there you see it!!!! the saffron band on that mans wrist.
You dont see it? here take my red cap :)
@sohaib zeshan: "Who cares about India ..." And, yet, you wonder why the entire world, not just India, brands you a terrorist nation! Search your souls, if you have any!
@ Ghaznavi "India ‘whining’ yet again!! What a cry baby…."
At least, India (unlike Pakistan) does not blame everyone else but itself for its home-made malaise. Pakistan is, as the world knows, the major exporter of terrorism. Whining is, by the way, a Pakistani prerogative. Pakistanis whine because they want more money (alms) from Uncle Sam, they whine because they feign to be on the "forefront of the battle against terrorism" (what a joke!) when, in reality, they are nurturing terrorism all the time through overt and covert methods. Do you sometimes not ask yourselves why you are the most disliked and unwanted people anywhere in the world? Just take your green passport to any foreign country and see the reaction of the immigration officials! You whine, again, when India does not issue enough visas to so-called "cricket fans" whom most Indians don't want to see on their soil because they suspect every Pakistani to be a potential terrorist. Can you really blame anybody, but yourselves, at the way you are treated? YOU have to change your stone-age mindset if you want to progress and offer something better to your children and grandchildren, many of whom have become the proverbial sacrificial lambs at the behest of hate-mongering mullahs and their thug mobsters. Terrorism will, eventually, destroy your own country. Remember the Frankenstein monster?
The American's pointed the way - OBL and Salala incidents have pointed out that Pakistan air force is incapable of acting when their Generals are sleeping - take the hint and get rid of the terrorist camps in the early morning.
either you stop them or else your non state actors theory will not work on any new attack done by pakistani terror org and you will have to face the backlash .
The statement from the Indian official is well timed to coincide with Pakistan Foreign Minister Khar and General Kiani's visit to Brussel and meeting with US Foreign secretary. Previously, India used to pull a big one to draw world's attention towards itself and also muddle the discussion that was to take place between Pakistan and other world leaders.
Picture shows the story.
India 'whining' yet again!! What a cry baby....
don't call that as an 'accusation', and it's not 'hurling'-rather, it's called stating the well known. Every intelligence unit of the big powers know the fact of terrorists being trained in Pakistan, the Americans, the french, the British, Chinese, Russians, Germans etc. Even after decade of 'war on terror' with Pakistan and Afghanistan as the epicenter of it, it's funny to see that it is still being labelled as 'hurling accusation'.
It is bitter, and sad but a fact that "terroror networks" are not only intact but have widened and advanced and threatens not only us and the neighborhood but the entire peace loving and civilized world. Pakistan must use al the power at its disposal with total and focussed comittment with the conviction that this menace must be conqured before all is lost.
The LOC has become a killing field. With Pakistan pushing in infiltrators and Indians equipping the border posts with advanced detection technology, the young brainwashed youth die in no man's land. Most of them never cross into India. What a waste of human lives !!
who cares what india says..
its great to love one's country...but who says that love shd stop at its border?
"NEW DEHLI:Despite peace overtures, India levelled serious charges against Pakistan on Tuesday, alleging that there were more than 40 training camps in Pakistan for militants who make regular attempts to cross the heavily fortified de factor border between the countries." Indian leadership when shall you stop playing as usual old blame game without solid and authentic evidences against Pakistan????????
Dear Pakistanis - look at it this way - if there are no terrorist camps, well and good. If not, these fine gentlemen will ultimately turn on you. You choose.
Whats new?? according to their superstar boob booom Imran Khan, there are more than 40 militant organizations very actively working in pakistan
Looks like blaming Pakistan for all their troubles is not a prerogative of Afghanistan only, India can't resist blaming Pakistan for everything from the weather to how well the junior home affairs minister is feeling that day.