Jammu: Pakistan based militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) are luring youth from Gujarat to militancy and sending them across to training camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) through Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Some batches of 65-68 Gujarati youth have been pushed into PoK along the line of control (LoC) via Poonch," top official sources told reporters.

These youth, brought from Ahmedabad, Baroda, Godhra and other areas of Gujarat, were being sent across the border by module networks of LeT and HuJI operating for the last one-and-a-half years, they said.

One such LeT module came to light with the arrest of two ISI agents Mohammad Lateef Pathan and Mohammad Sadiq Malik after the Hillkaka operation in Surankote in Poonch district in which a slain militant was identified as Munir Ahmed, a butcher from Ahmedabad, they said.

Lateef, a resident of Kullian in Poonch and a truck driver by profession confessed to having ferried 36 Gujarati boys in three to four trips from the state to Poonch and handing them over to Malik, an over-ground supporter of LeT during the last one year, the sources said.

The two gave Rs 10 lakh to religious institution of a particular community for the purpose, the sources said adding that the youth took to gun culture after the Akshardham temple attack in Gandhinagar carried out by LeT militants.

PTI