New Delhi: Alleging that Pakistan had reopened all the 85 terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Army on October 7 said by changing the deployment pattern of its forces and induction of highly sophisticated surveillance systems, it was able to score big hits on the terrorists.

Maintaining that there was a sharp spurt in infiltration attempts across the line of control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir for the past one month, the Army said as many as 211 militants had been killed in September, which was the highest number since the outbreak of militancy in the border state.

Of these, 77 alone had been killed while attempting to cross the LoC clandestinely, Maj Gen Deepak Summenwar, Additional Director General, Public information, told the media in New Delhi pointing out that a large number of terrorists had been brought to 120 launch pads on the border by Pakistani forces.

Asserting that 80 per cent of the terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir were Pakistani nationals, he said it was now proposed to raise seven new Territorial Army Battalion from within Jammu and Kashmir to keep up the pressure on militants.

He said under the proposal now awaiting final clearance by the Cabinet Committee on Security 'home and hearth ' battalion would be raised one each in Kupwara, Baramulla, South Central Kashmir in the Kashmir division and one each from Rajouri, Kishatwar, Basholi and Bari Brhamna region in Jammu.

Briefing reporters on the recently launched "Operation Baraub", to flush out a large group of Lashkar and Jaish infiltrators from the Gurez Valley near the LoC in North Kashmir, Summenwar displayed to reporters documents and identity cards recovered from 19 terrorists killed to assert Pakistan continued complicity in cross border terrorism.

"Right from the movement of their entry into the Indian territory, the terrorists were kept under surveillance and in three major encounters 19 of them had been killed," the Gen said adding that mopping up operations were still on in the area.

Defence Attaches from over 15 countries, who were taken to Gurez for an on-the-spot study recently, were also given a briefing on the operation. Some of them told reporters that Pakistan's complicity in cross border terrorism was becoming increasingly evident.

The documents seized from the terrorists included instructions on blazing routes through snow, making of improvised explosive devices including use of high grade explosives like RDX and PETN.

Army officials said that the new breed of terrorists being pushed across by Pakistan were highly motivated and trained in use of advanced weapons like explosives, sniper rifles, communication equipment and high calibre weapons and suicide missions. Officials said that recently, Pakistan Army had carried out a re-structuring of terrorist communications to improve quality of transmissions, security of communications and also to achieve higher deniability.

They said terrorists were now increasingly carrying satellite and cellular phones.

PTI