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Pak deploys sabotage experts along LoC Jammu, December 19 The Special Service Group (SSG) of the Pakistani army, specialising in sabotage operations, have been inducted in sensitive areas along the LoC in the Jammu-Poonch sector, including at the most sensitive Akhnoor-Pallanwala-Chammb sub-sector, the sources said here today. The SSG’s ‘MKSA’ (Moses) company, known for its demolition, sabotage and disruptive activities, has been placed in the forward area of Chicken Neck belt, the most sensitive and demographically weak defence area in Jammu and Kashmir, the sources said. “They have been deployed for demolition of vulnerable places and points and for disrupting the line of communication in Pallanwala, Chicken Neck area of Jammu”, the sources said. The SSG units in collaboration with the Al-Badr, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and some other militant outfits have jointly set up a border action team (BAT) for launching hit-and-run guerrilla strikes at the border, the sources said. These SSG units were camouflaged behind the BAT set-up, the sources said adding these were deployed in 17 different places, mostly sensitive along the IB and LoC from Kathua to Poonch, The SSG, raised from 10-Baluch and airborne 19-Baluch, had been trained by the British and US air force and army in sabotage, demolition, destruction of vital defence installations, communication and back-up supplies, the sources
said. These SSG units, with the strength of 2500, each battalion having 700 men, had carried out demolition and sabotage tasks in the Indian territory in Jammu border during the 1971 war, the sources said. They had also carried airborne operations deep inside the Indian segment of LoC during that war in the Rajouri and Baramula sector of Jammu and Kashmir. These groups were specially trained in mountain warfare, snow and high-altitude warfare, the sources said.
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Geelani’s brother held Srinagar, December 19 Mufti’s arrest triggered a strike in the district headquarters town of Baramula, but elders persuaded residents to give up the agitation and let the authorities hold investigations. Sopore town in the same district was also tense as most of those picked up so far belonged to the township, they said. However, the police maintained silence over the arrests. The sources said 11 persons were picked up for questioning from different parts of Baramula district in north Kashmir and Srinagar on the basis of the detailed interrogation report of the Delhi lecturer and others arrested in connection with the December 13 attack. Mufti, a religious scholar and elder brother of Geelani, was picked up from his Tawheedgunj residence in Baramula last night, sources said. Four persons were arrested from Sopore town and two from Baramula town, they said and identified one of the arrested as Abdul Kabir Shah, a resident of Baramula. All of them had been brought to Srinagar. Three persons, including a man and his son, were picked up from the Tengpora area of Srinagar in the wee hours today, the sources said. Another person, Tanveer Ahmad, was also picked up by the police from the city. Jammu: Ghazi Baba, mastermind behind the attack on the Parliament House, is believed to have fled his Pahalgam hideout in south Kashmir and shifted to Kishtwar area of Doda district, south of Pir Panjal ranges, according to official sources here on Wednesday. The sources said Ghazi Baba fled in the wake of massive search and cordon operations jointly undertaken by security forces and the police in upper reaches of Pahalgam woodland in Anantnag district of south Kashmir during last few days. The security forces smashed two hideouts in Pahalgam’s Lidder valley yesterday, where Ghazi and his men were believed to be hiding. Ghazi Baba, alias doctor, supreme commander of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) outfit for Jammu and Kashmir, was believed to have moved to the Kishtwar belt taking the Duksum-Kokernag route, the sources said. Ghazi and his men had also stayed in Afti and Mati-Gaveran areas of Kishtwar before leaving for some other area in Doda district, the sources said. As per a message intercepted by security forces, the JEM headquarters in Pakistan had asked Ghazi to shun Kashmir and come back to Pakistan, they said. Ghazi was moving towards Rajouri district in a bid to cross over to Pakistan, the sources said, adding that the troops had been kept vigilant to foil his attempt to exfiltrate out of the state.
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