The Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday (March 21) that a significant number of terrorists are waiting in various launch pads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
However, there is a decrease in the number of infiltration from across the border to 34 in 2021 as compared to 51 in 2020, 138 in 2019, and 143 in 2018.
Pakistan and India have been observing a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) for over a year now, however, it has still not given up its support for Islamic terrorist organisations like Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) and the Lashkar e Taiban (leT) and that is why it is still in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gray list.
As the minister briefed the Parliament, he was asked whether Pakistan has built infrastructure along the LoC and terrorists had tried to infiltrate from the launch pads. To this question, the minister said, “information sought to be a sensitive operational matter concerning national security and cannot be divulged in the interest of national security,”.
In his address in the Parliament Rai made it very clear that the central government regularly reviews the security situation along the LoC and takes all precautionary measures to eliminate threat elements, including terrorists.
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