MHA sends team to assess cross-border infiltration
The Army, which is maintaining vigil on the border, maintains that the year 2015-2016 has been a zero-infiltration year.
In Short
- High-level team to assess increase in cross-border infiltration.
- Army maintains this year has been a zero-infiltration year.
- J&K Police say Pampore attack due to infiltrated militants.
As the Union Home Minister is sending high-level team to Kashmir to assess possible increase in cross-border infiltration, J&K Police maintains the attack carried out in Pampore is the handiwork of the recently infiltrated militants.
INFILTRATION
A senior police official said the militants were part of a four-member group, who had recently infiltrated from north Kashmir's Nowgam sector and reached Baba Reshi in Tangmarg and from there they moved to Srinagar. However, the Army, which is maintaining vigil on the border, maintains that the year 2015-2016 has been a zero-infiltration year.
TEAM TO PROBE ISSUE
According to the Union Home Ministry, in the wake of recent attack on Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) convoy, the Ministry of Home affairs will be sending a team to look into the issue. The Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh has directed that the team should submit its report at the earliest. "On the highway from Srinagar to Jammu our movement is regular and without any interruption. The terrorists have advantage of time. Our boys are defenceless, they are in buses. But we have increased vigil," IGP CRPF Srinagar, Atul Karwal, told Mail today. He said due to apprehension of attacks, security forces can't stop plying convoys on the highway. "There is a pattern in the highway attacks, which is known to all security agencies," he said.
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