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Indian forces rush to fix the biggest security gap in Kashmir
Islamic militants are gathering again to enter Kashmir and cause major disruptions using a major security gap detected recently.
According to Reuters, Indian troops are rushing to repair a border fence in Kashmir, badly damaged by the heaviest snowfall in decades, to prevent fresh incursions by separatist guerrillas, a senior army officer said.
Last year, Indian army engineers fenced off most of the so-called Line of Control, a 742-km (460-mile) military line that divides Indian and Pakistani Kashmir, in what is seen as an ambitious attempt to curb the influx of anti-Indian militants.
But the concertina wire barrier – which had helped reduce the number of militants slipping in from the Pakistani side – was damaged at several places after the heaviest snowfall in four decades in February, an Indian army brigadier said.
"In some places the damage is about 50 to 60 per cent, in others it is 25 or 30 per cent," the brigadier, who did not want to be named, told Reuters at India's last military post on the frontier in Kashmir.
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