According to a detailed presentation made by the Ministry of Home Affairs on the role of Pakistani agencies, including Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and their surrogates at a meeting of chief ministers of seven nothern states here, 61,900 weapons were smuggled into India for use by terrorists.

A total of 4,730 explosions were caused while 2.78 lakh people were rendered homeless.

Estimated security related costs including compensation to victims, raising of local counter-terrorist forces has been put at Rs 18,500 crore while expenditure on deployment of army and para-military forces on anti-terrorist duties was estimated to be Rs 46,000 crore.

Over 51,810 kgs of high explosives including RDX was sent to india to cause explosions, out of which 43,000 kgs was seized.

An estimated 7,125Pakistanis and foreign mercenaries were sent by Pakistan into India for sabotage of whom 1,120 were killed and 140 arrested, while 4115 returned. There were 1,750 foreign mercenaries still active in India.

About 19,000 Indian nationals were trained in sabotage by ISI in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Pak-occupied Kashmir, the estimates said.

The major incidents involving ISI or other Pakistani agencies this year alone, included foiling of attempts on the life of former haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal at Karnal (March), arrest of smugglers associated with Pak-based Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) chief Paramjit Singh Panjwar (August) at Ludhiana and the nabbing of a hawala operator and two of his Afghan associates in Delhi (August) who was responsible for transfer of over Rs 1.75 crore to militants.

Security forces also arrested five Lashkar-E-Toiba activists in Delhi in July and thwarted their plans to attack military installations here.

A module of Harkat-Ul-Ansar was broken up in Delhi last month withthe arrest of three of its activists, while a Hizbul Mujahedeen leader was caught in July collecting money brought in through hawala channel.

A key Kathmandu-based Babbar Khalsa international militant was caught this February near the Indo-Nepal border while he was escorting a foreign-based militant. Security forces shot six members of ISI-backed Abdul Latif gang in Ahmedabad in March.