At least 60 militants belonging to Lashkar-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed groups are being trained in the terror launch pads across the border and waiting for opportunities to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir, Home Ministry officials said here.
According to intelligence inputs, the militants were looking for opportunities to enter India through both the International Border and the Line of Control, the officials said.
"We have directed the security forces to be extra vigilant and take all possible steps to foil any attempt by the militants to violate the border," the officials said.
In the past two months, Pakistan-based terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have made many attempts to infiltrate into the country and a few of them have been successful, officials said.
According to a Home Ministry statistics, there have been more than 175 infiltration attempts in Jammu and Kashmir last year. Around 560 incidents of ceasefire violation also have taken place along the Line of Control and the International Border in 2014.
In 2013, there were 354 cases of infiltration along the Indo-Pakistan border in which 56 militants were killed and 145 arrested. There were 332 incidents of infiltration from across Pakistan in 2012 in which 30 were killed and 123 were apprehended.
In 2011, there were 317 incidents of infiltration in which 50 militants were killed and 86 arrested.
