Terror camps in PoK hit by killer virus, many could die: Kashmiri trainee heard telling family in intercepted call

New Delhi: The novel Coronavirus has found its way into the terror camps being run in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and it may end up killing many terrorists.

The revelation was made by none other than Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh, based on an intercepted phone-call made by a trainee from his PoK camp to his family in Kashmir.

“There are reports that somebody from a training camp in Pakistan, where he is being trained, made a call to his family members here (Kashmir), telling them that some of the trainees from Kashmir have been infected by the coronavirus,” the DGP told media.

“He was telling them that some of them would die of the coronavirus in the training camps and nobody bothers about them,” he said.

J&K DGP also didn’t rule out the fact that Pakistan would try to infiltrate the infected terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir to spread the deadly virus in Valley.

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“They are infected with coronavirus and if they come to this side (Kashmir), they will pass on the infection to other cadres. This is a very serious concern,” he said.

Pakistan has reactivated at least 20 terror camps and another 20 launch pads along the Line of Control and increased its efforts since October last year to infiltrate as many terrorists as possible into Jammu and Kashmir.

The camps and launch pads, with at least 50 terrorists in each, were reactivated after remaining shut for months following the bombing of a CRPF bus in Pulwama in February 2019 and the subsequent retaliatory bombing of terror camps in Balakot by the Indian Air Force.

The DGP said 250 to 325 terrorists were waiting on the launchpads to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir, where over 240 terrorists are already operating in hinterlands.