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India readies to strike >Sat, 18 May 2002 10:57:54 -0700 > >Title: India

readies to strike >Author: Deepak Sharma/New Delhi >Publication: The Pioneer

>May 18, 2002 > >It's all systems go as far as New Delhi is concerned.

Having collected all the necessary evidence of the massing of infiltrators

across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir as well as their locations, the

Indian Air Force is busy giving final touches to its strategy for conducting

selective strikes at the terror camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. > > >New

Delhi has kept Washington informed of the presence of over 3000 terrorists in

the Northern Territories, near the Line of Control. While the US is believed to

have admitted that it would be "legitimate" for India to take action in these

circumstances, it has pleaded for more time to be given to Pakistan. > >

>However, this time, the Government is in no mood to oblige. "We gave you

nearly six months after the attack on our Parliament. What were you doing all

this time? Nothing has changed on the ground," a senior Government functionary

is understood to have conveyed to US officials in New Delhi. > > >The view in

the top echelons of the Government is that while military action is undoubtedly

"fraught with risks," inaction at this juncture will be "disastrous". It is not

just as question of the Government, "We have to ask ourselves what kind of a

nation we are, if we fail to act even now," a top Government official told The

Pioneer on Saturday. > > >While the government gears up for a possible military

option, South block would continue to take calibrated measures to to mount

diplomatic pressure on Islamabad. By Sunday some more important decision could

be taken including withdrawal of the Most Favoured Nation(MFN) status and a

reconsideration on Indus Water Treaty. > > >Top sources in the government

revealed that Indian Intelligence agencies have identified 75 operational camps

relocated in PoK during the past few months. These camps, evidently set up under

the supervision of the Pakistan army, include well equipped mercenaries, most of

whom fled from Afghanistan after the fall of Taliban militia. Many of these

assembled mercenaries are believed to be Arabs linked to Al-Qaeda outfits who

were till recently fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the Taliban. > > >During

the high level briefing on Saturday by three services chiefs to the Prime

Minister and key cabinet colleagues, the officers gave a detailed presentation

on these camps and recently relocated settlements of the Jehadis in PoK.

Sources said that Cabinet Committee on Security will again sit on Sunday to

discuss strategy with three services chief. > > >During the past fortnight

Intelligence agencies have given specific inputs about the recently relocated

training camps and launching pads of the terrorists set up all along the border

in Northern Areas and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The agencies have identified 75

such operational camps. > > >A secret report sent to the Prime Ministers Office

reveal between 3000 to 4000 terrorists belonging to Taliban and Al Qaida have

been sheltered in PoK. The report says that 2000 terrorists are settled in

tents which have sprung up on the periphery of Muzaffarabad. > > >The report

also mentions that the biggest settlement of terrorists is located at Al-badr

Markaz, 20 km from Muzaffarabad. > > >According to the report a large number of

these camps and settlements are being directly managed by the Pakistan army. > >

>"Training camps and establishments of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed (under

their new nomenclatures), Al-badr and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen continue to function

freely in an around Muzzafarabad," the report says. > > > >

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