New Delhi, July 22: Two major suicide attacks on army camps within a fortnight in the Jammu region have come in the wake of recent alarming intelligence reports of frequent infiltration of militants by Pakistan from the Chamb and Khuiratta areas in Akhnoor sector. The army top brass is seeing a pattern in the attacks, with militants trying to shift their focus from the Kashmir valley to Jammu region by trying to score major hits in the area.

Intelligence reports said while there was a brief lull in infiltration into the Kashmir valley, that in the Jammu region had been unabated since may. "We have evidence that a large number of Lashker-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militants have come across from the Akhnoor sector", top army officials said.


As the army has sent instructions to entire formations in Jammu and Kashmir to be on full alert against more such attempts by militants, units have been asked to maintain high vigil and take special measures to deal with such attacks.

According to militant intercepts, an estimated 1,500 to 1,800 militants have managed to cross into Jammu region and unlike in the Kashmir valley, they have been instructed to indulge in massive violence.

With the army receiving sophisticated anti-militancy gadgets like sensors, thermal imagers and advanced infantry weapons, the militants are now trying to find gaps in Akhnoor region to infiltrate.

Bureau Report