Police gets insight into LeT’s PoK terror camps

By Amitabh Shankar
New Delhi, Aug. 15: The interrogation of the two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorists arrested on August 10 from the New Delhi Railway Station has given the Delhi police an insight into the training camps being run by the LeT and ISI in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Abu Anas, one of the alleged terrorists, told the police that the focus of the LeT is to indoctrinate young people into terrorism in Pakistan. To carry out their mission, the LeT operatives make frequent trips to madrasas and schools and vilify young minds by telling them concocted stories of atrocities against Muslims in Kashmir and other parts of the world. They spot teenagers and bring them into their fold by giving them training into terrorism in one of the many camps being run by them in PoK, said joint commissioner of police (special cell) Karnal Singh.
"First, the young people are trained in training camps called Daura-e-aam at which they are offered basic training. They are trained to handle various types of weapons. This training programme lasts for 21 days. Not much firing practice is given in this camp. At a Daura-e-aam training camp, a batch generally consists of 300-400 people," said Mr Singh.
After the initial training is complete, the trainees are left to operate under the local commanders of the LeT and their performance is reviewed on a regular basis. Those who are found motivated enough qualify for the second round of training which is more rigorous. This training is given in a Daura-e-khas training camps again operating on the PoK land, Mr Singh added. "The strength of the batch is around 50 and the training lasts for three months. The terrorists are trained on how to operate sophisticated weapons. The terrorists are also trained on how to make explosive substances and operate them. It is here that those with maximum motivation are spotted and provided training to become human bombs," Mr Singh said.
After the training, those indoctrinated are sent on missions to India and are given contacts from where they can get explosives and guidelines for their action. Mr Singh said though Anas had received training at an LeT camp, some Bangladeshi terrorists who were arrested earlier had been trained in ISI training camps.

Courtesy: Asian Age