New Delhi: India is expected to take up with Pakistan the issue of smashing communication set up of various militant outfits operating from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) during the three-day official level talks beginning in Islamabad tomorrow (Feb 16, 2004).

During the meeting, which will discuss the modalities for the composite dialogue for resolving all outstanding issues including Jammu and Kashmir, India will take up the issue of communication centres of various militant outfits including Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in PoK, which continue to transmit messages to their cadres in Jammu and Kashmir, informed sources said in New Delhi today (Feb 15).

The militants sitting in PoK camps continue to relay messages to their cadres asking them to "turn deaf" ears to the friendship messages of India and Pakistan and continue to strike against the security forces.

The sources said the volume of communication between Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar's wireless station on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad in PoK and its cadres in Kashmir Valley had increased and India would ask Pakistan to put an effective check on it.