Intelligence reports suggest that authorities in J&K apprehend more killings by militants in the coming weeks as Pakistan will try to push more ultras into the state taking advantage of the thinning security in interior areas.

These reports suggest that as the Lok Sabha polls are getting closer, Pakistan is trying to shift its focus from shelling along the border to intensifying its proxy war in the state.

Militants engineered a series of strikes killing 38 people in Doda, Poonch and Anantnag districts between 29 June and July 1. They also killed three village defence committeemembers and kidnapped five others on July 21-22 night.

Having tasted defeat on military and diplomatic fronts in Kargil, Pakistan will not sit silent and will try to engineer massacres by ultras in the state, especially in minority-dominated areas, the intelligence reports said.

The Pakistani outfits providing arms training to ultras and funding them, will try to step up their terrorist acts during the polls, these reports said and indicated that saboteurs would resort to destruction of state property, extortion, killing of political leaders and protected persons, creating communal tension by targeting minority community and places of worship.