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Most terror groups have linkages in Pak, PoK: India

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Posted: Mar 04, 2008 at 1448 hrs IST

New Delhi, March 4: Most individuals and terrorist groups operating in India have linkages with groups and agencies across the border, mainly in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir, government told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Replying to questions in the House, Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal (rpt) Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said Lashker-e-Tayyaba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HUJI), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM and Al-Badr were among the terror groups having international networks.

Security and intelligence agencies closely monitor the activities of such groups and networks and relevant information and inputs in this regard are regularly shared with the state governments, he said.

Close vigilance and surveillance is being maintained on the borders to check and control possible infiltration of terrorist elements in the country, Jaiswal said.

Other measures taken to check infiltration include border fencing or floodlighting and strengthening of arrangements for coastal security, he said.

In view of the external imperatives of the terrorist activities and violence in various parts of the country, action is also being taken at the international level through bilateral and multilateral cooperation to check and counter terrorism and several institutional mechanisms have been developed towards this end, the minister said.

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