General Officer Commanding (GoC), 16 Corps, Lieutenant General R R Nimbhorkar also told reporters today that troops are very alert and a counter-infiltration grid is in place along the border to foil the terrorists' designs.
"We have thwarted their attempts to infiltrate through an area (in Poonch LoC) and in fact we killed three terrorists in one of their attempts (in Poonch). They belong to Lashkar-e-Toiba," he said, adding, "We recovered a dress of a terrorist and on which it was written Jamaat-Ul-Dawa."
He was replying to a volley of question about visits of 26/11 mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Sayeed to LoC areas on Pakistan side to incite and help infiltration of militants into Jammu and Kashmir.
In an encounter in Poonch on December 3, three LeT terrorists who have been killed, wore t-shirts bearing in Urdu the name of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an outfit which has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States. The jawans have also recovered weapons and 'Made in Pakistan' eatables from the terrorists.
On the situation in LoC, he said "We are always vigilant
whether it is snowfall or normal summer activity. Our system and our methodology change as per the climate and temperature on the ground."
On the question of change in security situation along the border following resumption of talks between India and Pakistan, he said, "See the static policy of our adversary is that they will help those whom they call freedom fighters and that is a different part of story and matter of perception."
"...We are taking adequate measures to stall the infiltration and stop them and make sure that they don't get a chance to engineer subversive acts in this part of the country," he said.
Asked about change in terror infrastructure across the border including launching pads, he said "I cannot put my thumb on their pulse. They keep on changing. Only thing I can say with certainty yes, they are there. There is no denying the fact."
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