'Pak girls being trained in militant camps in PoK'

Jammu, Nov 14 (PTI) Over 100 Pakistani girls are being
trained in terrorist camps financed by Inter-Services
Intelligence (I.S.I.), Pakistan's intelligence agency, in
Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to carry out militant activities in
Jammu and Kashmir, a woman arrested by the Border Security
Force (B.S.F.) along the Line of Control (LoC) has revealed.

24-year-old Asiya Malik, wife of a Pakistani soldier,
was arrested by the Border Security Force (B.S.F.) at Dadil
forward post along the Line of Control in Sunderbani belt of
Rajouri district Thursday, intelligence sources told PTI.

During her interrogation, she revealed that Pakistani
girls are being trained in handling of weapons, explosives,
jungle warfare and sabotage activities in two militant
training camps (M.T.C.s) in Bhimber and Kotli areas across LoC
in PoK, sources said.

While around 80 girls were being trained in Bhimber
M.T.C., another 25 were at Kotli M.T.C., Asiya, who was also
trained in Bhimber camp, revealed.

The girls will be sent in group of 10 to 12, she told
the interrogators.

Asiya, whose husband Sajad Ahmed is a havildar in 129
unit of Nikial base army unit and her cousin Muzamil a
militant commander of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), was tasked to
conduct recce of LoC to find safe infiltration routes and
security deployment pattern, the sources said.

She also told the interrogators that the Pakistani
intelligence agency I.S.I. was financing these training camps,
where recruits come from various countries including Saudi
Arabia.

According to Asiya, Pakistani army was backing
infiltration in J&K from across LoC and Major Musa and another
Pak army officer Talat visited the camps and LoC infiltration
bases, sources claimed.

Police has registered a case in this connection and
the woman will be sent to Joint Interrogation Centre (J.I.C.)
for further interrogation, sources said. PTI AB
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