To nail Pak lie, militants to sing before attaches today

For once, it will not be an Indian explaining cross-border terrorism to Western military attaches. They will hear it from none other than me...

For once, it will not be an Indian explaining cross-border terrorism to Western military attaches. They will hear it from none other than men trained by Pakistan and sent across the Line of Control (LoC) to strike terror in Jammu and Kashmir.

In an unusual first, the Army will produce tomorrow apprehended militants before military attaches of over two dozen countries — on a tour of the state, they will arrive in Jammu from the Valley tomorrow — to nail Pakistan’s lie on terror camps on its soil.

12 militants killed

SRINAGAR: Security forces on Sunday night shot dead 12 militants in Gurez sector in north Kashmir, foiling their infiltration bid, Defence sources here said. This was the first major infiltration bid by militants in this sector in a week. (PTI)

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Sources said this would be proof that Pakistan had still not dismantled terror camps on its side of the LoC. Senior Army officers have been saying that infiltration has gone up substantially in the last one month and there’s hardly a day when security forces don’t intercept militants attempting to sneak in.

Visiting military attaches, sources said, will be directly interacting with Pakistani militants tomorrow and ‘‘will get to know of their training camps in Pakistan, launching pads near the LoC, funding sources and of those who helped them sneak into Jammu and Kashmir.’’

‘‘Let them (attaches) get to hear all this from apprehended militants and not us,’’ an Army officer told The Indian Express on Sunday.