New Delhi: Pakistani Army has recruited about 60war-toughened Afghan fighters who would be pushed across the border to carryout attacks on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, intelligence agencies havewarned. The Indian security forces have been alerted about the possibleinfiltration.According to the intelligence inputs, "Around 40 to 60 Afghanterrorists" belonging to various terror groups and armed withsophisticated weapons have been recruited by Pakistan's spy agencyInter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to carry out attacks in Jammu andKashmir."

Documents show that a dozen fighters will be carrying outattacks using suicidal jackets or weapons in the region. They will be trainedin war-torn Afghanistan and then received by Pakistani Army in KhyberPakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The fighters will then, the inputs show, willbe transported to launch pads for infiltration in Kashmir to send them acrossthe border in India.According to the alert prepared with the intelligenceinputs, the ISI had meetings with multiple fighter groups in Afghanistan'sBadakhshan province where it selected the fighters.

They would leave the province by September 21, according tothe intelligence inputs.The terrorists would try to infiltrate in small groupspossibly taking multiple routes in a gap of 24-48 hours, the agencies suspect.

The decision to recruit Afghan fighters, highly placedsources claim, was taken at a meeting held in the third week of August inBahawalpur of Punjab province. The agenda of the meeting, as per the inputs,was to conduct attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.

Intelligence agencies have asked local agencies and securityforces to update information regarding such movements of the suspects.Sourcessaid that the forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir have been briefed about theforeign terrorists` possible infiltration and asked to keep corroborating thelatest information.Pakistan has violated ceasefire several times and has beentrying to send terrorists in India to carry out attacks in Jammu and Kashmirsince the government abrogated Article 370 last month.

In a related development, the Indian Air Force has put itsairbases in and around Jammu and Kashmir on orange alert based on inputs ofpossible terrorist attacks on the bases.