Exclusive: 'Indian troop movement' alarms Pakistan

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Hyderabad : India | 10 months ago

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The Pakistani military establishment is alarmed at intelligence reports that India has moved its 19th division closer to the LoC and its troops are attaining an aggressive posture on the pretext of keeping a close watch.

Military sources said in the light of this input, some Pakistani army brigades have been deployed along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir, Jhelum-Chenab and Chenab-Ravi corridors.

The Pakistani army has further activated its special operation intelligence units in various forward areas along the border. However, sources denied it was war-like mobilisation. The military was only taking precautions to counter possible Indian aggression.

In a related development, the World Bank said the money being spent by Pakistan to maintain troops on the border was something it could ill-afford and that Islamabad's economic viability and growth will enhance if it normalises ties with New Delhi.

Some 4,00,000 troops are on the frontier in a state of readiness, the cause for the additional Rs15 billion expected defence spend in 2002 fiscal, a recent World Bank report on Pakistan said.

"This is a sum that Pakistan, with its debt problems and unfulfilled social needs, can ill-afford. There are severe risks arising from Pakistan's strained relations with India. The Kashmir crisis could end in a nuclear exchange that will wreak physical and economic devastation in both India and Pakistan," the report says.

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