Diversion of ultras from Afghan-Pak border possible: GOC-in-C

"It is quite likely that the terrorists who are being used there, who are carrying out terrorist activity on the borders of Afghanistan-Pakistan, some of them could be diverted to our border...We cannot rule out this possibility," General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command Lt Gen K T Parnaik told reporters at the Kargil War memorial here, 150 kms from Srinagar.

The Army commander said the impact of what happens in Kashmir after US military withdraws from more than a decade of war in Afghanistan is an "open source debate".

"US drawdown from Afghanistan is an open source debate which is going on and not only the army, but intelligentsia, the government sources, the civil institutions are all saying that once the drawdown starts the possibility of the focus slowly shifting from Afghanistan to other regions will always be there," Lt Gen Parnaik said.

He said the army needs to take "caution" so that it is not caught "unaware" from the fallout of the Afghan situation.

"We need to take caution, we need to take preemptive action and we need to put things in place that should this happen we are not caught unawares...As a nation, as an army, as a state we need to be cautious, should that happen we should be able to take preemptive action and not let it affect us," he said.