Pak-sponsored anti-India terror unabated: JJ Singh

New Delhi, Oct 17: Even as India and Pakistan today announced resumption of their composite dialogue aimed at restoring peace and tranquility between the two, Army Chief Gen JJ Singh maintained that Pak-sponsored anti-India activities continued unabated with the terror training-infrastructure across the border intact.

Briefing mediapersons at the conclusion of the Army Commanders' Conference here, Gen Singh -- while reiterating the charge against Pakistan -- pointed to the continuing anti-India terrorism within the country -- though he admitted to the frequency having gone down as compared to previous years.

The Army Chief said infiltration from across the western borders continued -- though through areas other than the traditional Jammu&Kashmir. ''Now terrorists are getting in through Rajasthan and our neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh....'' New Delhi and Islamabad today announced dates for Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two neighbours -- from November 13 to 15 in New Delhi -- marking the resumption of the composite dialogue between the two countries that was stalled after the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai that claimed more than 180 lives.

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammed Khan will arrive in New Delhi on November 13 for the talks with his Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon -- who assumed office October 1 last.

According to Gen JJ Singh, the Army in J&K -- after having won the confidence of the civil population -- had brought down its own attrition rate and -- through a now well-established information network -- carried the battle into the terrorists' traditional strongholds.

''We are winning the proxy war in J&K... and the security duties in the north-eastern parts of the country, too, have benefitted from similar strategies'', said the Army Chief.

He said the efforts of the security forces in the north-east -- especially Assam, Nagaland and Manipur -- had borne the desired results assisted by well-meaning civilian population averse to the prolonged insurgency.

''The ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam) in Assam and the NSCN(IM) -- Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland: Muivah Faction -- in Nagaland have shown keenness to start dialoguing with the Government aimed at resolving the prolonged insurgency in these north-eastern areas of the country....''

UNI

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