What military attaches of 22 countries saw on LoC in J&K

IRNA
Srinagar, Sept 30, IRNA -- When military attaches and defense 
diplomats of 24 countries flew over 16,000 ft high altitude snow 
covered ridges of north Kashmir on Monday, they saw more than a 
heavily militarized frontier there. 
The diplomats at Gurez were greeted upon their landing by rattling
of guns in the area thus having a first hand account of the situation 
there. A two day long gunbattle had by then left 18 infiltrators dead.
This was perhaps most opportune time for Indian army to establish 
Pakistan`s hand behind 13-year-long Kashmir insurgency. 
The diplomats from New Delhi Missions of the two dozen countries 
included representatives of USA, Russia, France, Australia, Japan, 
Israel, Italy, Indonesia, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, DPR Korea, Myanmar,
Nepal and Ghana. 
They also included Brig Gen Firdous Hassan Khan of Bangladesh, 
Brig Gen Abdullah Saleh Awad of UAE, Col Ahmad Masood of Afghanistan, 
Lt Col Batyrbay of Kazakhstan and Col SP Pasichnyk of Ukraine. 
The diplomats were taken on a tour of the areas along the LoC in 
four MI-17 choppers of Indian Army. "We saw a number of human bodies, 
scattered in different ravines. 
The Indian Army officials accompanying us said that these were the
Pakistani militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba who were intercepted while 
infiltrating from Neelam valley of Pakistani controlled part of 
Kashmir and killed in the ongoing operation", said a journalist 
with official media accompanying the diplomats. 
"They explained that the Pakistan Army formations were just across
the lofty ridges in front of us. According to them, this group of 
militants had been pushed in by the Pakistan Army pickets just a 
stone`s throw away from our flying machines." 
Later the diplomats were shown a huge cache of arms that included 
20 AK-56 rifles and pistols. The diplomats were also shown about a 
dozen diaries and prayer books, troops had seized from the slain 
militants. The seizure included books with titles like "Tohfai 
Sa`aadat", Ausaf-e-Mujahid", "Hisul Muslim", and "Imani Hamsafar". 
India, of late, has been host to scores of diplomatic missions 
in Kashmir, as New Delhi is keen to establish that it faces a 
`terrorism onslaught` here similar to that faced by West. 
At his ceremonial briefing, at the Brigade headquarters, Maj Gen 
J K Mohanty, General Officer Commanding 28 Infantry Division laid 
repeated stress on one point: that Pakistan was continuously 
enrolling militant recruits, giving them sophisticated weapons and 
training at scores of camps and pushing them into Jammu & Kashmir 
for bloodshed. 
He said that earlier the infiltrators used to come in from the 
easier routes. Now, they had chosen the treacherous tracks. He said 
that members of the recently wiped out group had shown high degree 
of professionalism in retaliation and they seemed to have received 
advanced training in combat warfare. 
Mohanty asserted that all the training camps, which Pakistan had 
closed down temporarily, had been re-activated and the same were 
sending in "more trained, more well-equipped cadres" since July 
this year. 
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What military attaches of 22 countries saw on LoC in J&K
