New Delhi: Interrogation of some of the recently arrested militants has revealed that ISI (Inter State Intelligence) has re-opened militant training camps in large numbers in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) including Northern Areas (NA) and the Government fears a heavy infiltration in coming months.

A 30-page Home Ministry document states that the largest militant camp was in Jungle-Mangal area where nearly 300 militants mostly foreign mercenaries were being trained followed by Elaq-e-gher where 200 militants were being trained, official sources said.

The report, based on interrogation of militants caught recently in Jammu and Kashmir and intercepts of terrorists wireless messages, said camps in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan and Gilgit area in NA had been revived besides re-opening of full-fledged communication of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Lipa Valley.

The militant camps in Mansera and Haripur, which had been closed after the US-led operations against Taiban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, have been revived with a constant flow of youths from Afghanistan, official sources said.

The youths, who were mainly unemployed, were being targeted by ISI as it was facing with a serious depletion in the ranks of insurgents as many of the mercenaries belonging to other foreign countries including Sudan, Kuwait and Lebanon had been thrown out of Pakistan under pressure from the US and allied forces.

Some mercenaries arrested recently were quoted in the report as saying that they had ventured into Pakistan for a job, where they fell prey to ISI agents who lured them to training camps located in Muzaffarabad in Pak-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK), the sources said.

Bagh district had recently been added to the list of areas where training is being imparted as the area has a link between PoK and Afghanistan, according to the arrested ultras.

In order to maintain a distance from the Pakistan Army, ISI had created special DETS (Detachments), which were purely marked for launching the militants across the border without any help from the troops stationed at the border and the Line of Control.

By this move, Pakistan could escape the international criticism that it was helping the militants to cross over and instead project that it had no control over the terrorists, the report warned.

The report said that Irshad-ul-Dawa hospital at Chialabani Market in PoK had also been re-opened where militant casualties are treated. This hospital was also closed after the US onslaught on Afghanistan.

The report named Hunza and Mandakuli as the areas where militants owing allegiance to al-Badr were being trained whereas cadres of Hizbul Mujahideen were being trained at Nawakote and Korpani areas in PoK.

The report warned that the cadres at NWFP were being trained in the similar fashion as Taliban were trained by the ISI.