New Delhi, July 13: A US defence laboratory will soon start a project to show how hi-tech sensors and surveillance equipment can monitor terrorist incursions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources in the Indian defence ministry said Sandia National Laboratories, a key defence research organisation that ensures the safety of the US nuclear weapons stockpile, has been given the responsibility of creating the project.

The US offered to provide sophisticated sensors to monitor the 742-km LoC when Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited New Delhi last month to defuse tensions between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan.

The Cabinet Committee on Security, India's highest decision-making body on security-related issues, has agreed to consider the US offer. Bureau Report