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Pak trains medical corps of militants
Jupinderjit Singh
Tribune News Service

Jammu, December 19
A unique “medical corps” comprising 30 militants has been trained by Pakistani forces to take medical care of militants injured while infiltrating into the state or in encounters with security forces later.

Some of these are doctors, while others have the basic degree in medical science and have been trained to treat bullet injuries as well as save militants from frostbite in acute winter conditions.

DGP Kuldeep Khoda told The Tribune that a militant holding an MBBS degree was arrested in Srinagar in March this year. During investigation, it was learnt that 30 others were being specially trained. Later, intelligence reports also confirmed that a special “medical corps” was being raised.

Sources revealed that it was now that these trained medicos could be pushed into the Indian side and some may even have infiltrated already. With a long winter ahead, forces are already on a high alert against infiltration bids. It is unusual for the Pakistani forces to try to push maximum number of militants during winter.

At the most, one such trained doctor would accompany each group of militants. Just a few days ago, militants had reportedly crossed into the Gurez sector traversing snow, the sources said.

Already, over 20 major infiltration attempts have been made in the Jammu division in the last three months. The Central government also admitted in the Rajya Sabha two days ago that about 700 militants were active in the state.

Last year, a large number of militants had crossed even snow peaks, newspaper reports revealed. One of them suffered frostbites and was caught by people. The militants had worn white clothes so that they could pass over snow unnoticed.

The police and intelligence sources revealed that the militants had made many attempts to sneak into India in the Jammu division, but they may try to scale snowy peaks also.