Troops put on alert along LoC to stop Pak sabotage group
By siliconindia staff writer   |   Wednesday, 01 October 2003, 19:30 IST
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JAMMU: Troops along the Indo-Pak border have been put on high alert in the wake of surprise raids by Pakistan army's sabotage Border Action Teams (BATs) that attack Indian posts to push heavily armed terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. "Pakistan troops have started a fresh game plan of conducting raids by its specialised sabotage group, BATs, that target Listening Posts and Border Patrol along Line of Control (LoC) in order to engineer infiltration of heavily armed terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir recently," top defence sources told PTI in Jammu on Wednesday. In one recent attack, Pak soldiers of its Border Action Team (BAT) raided a border patrol of Jat regiment after crossing LoC in Jangard area of Noushera sector in Rajouri district and killed four jawans. The team, while going back, severed the head of a soldier and took it away with them as a trophy, the sources said, adding, that four more jawans were killed in another such attack on a Listening Post in Uri sector of Baramulla district in Kashmir vally a fortnight before. Surprise raids by Pakistani soldiers have occurred after a gap of three years, they said. In August 2000, three Indian soldiers were killed and seven injured in an attack on a Listening Post in Poonch sector.

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