Militants waiting for chances to infiltrate: BSF

Militants across the Line of Control in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir are 'waiting for chances' to infiltrate to this side.

Militants across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) are waiting for chances and have made several attempts to infiltrate to this side but have been unsuccessful so far,BSF today claimed.

They (militants) are waiting for chances to infiltrate but the troops are on alert on the border,so far they have not been able to do anything this year.

In a sense they have tried (to infiltrate) but they have not been successful, Inspector General of Border Security Forces (Kashmir Frontier) Baljit Singh said.

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Militants have been trying and will be trying to infiltrate as they continuously change their infiltration points depending on the climate in the area and the strength of troops in the region,he said.

However,there was no exact head count of militants active in the Valley and all the figures about them were speculations,Singh said.

We can say in Kashmir Valley there are 250 to 300 militants but there is no exact head count, he said.

The intelligence inputs about the number of militants waiting across the border and LoC suggest a large number of militants are there,he added.

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