Pak’s ISI trying to push militants to attack India’s hinterland: Intelligence inputs

NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s ISI has intensified its attempts to push terrorists into India to carry out terror strike in hinterland, similar to last week’s Gurdaspur attack, official sources said on Thursday. Quoting intelligence inputs, they said, there have been intensified attempts of infiltration by militants from across the border in recent past. All these attempts were being made at the behest of ISI with the objective of carrying out terror attacks in the hinterland, sources said. The intelligence inputs suggested that a new strategy was hatched by ISI to expand the area of terror strike from Jammu & Kashmir and militants were being trained for the purpose, they said. Home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said in Lok Sabha that there were five infiltration attempts from across the border and four of which were foiled and eight militants were neutralized by the security forces in last one month. On July 27, three terrorists in army uniforms opened fire on a bus and then attacked the Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The terrorists had sneaked into India from across the border taking advantage of an unfenced rivulet.