The Indian army has set up electronic surveillance along the disputed Kashmir border with Pakistan to check infiltration, local media reports said Monday.
"The army has decided to go electronic to monitor borders in Kargil, Baramulla, Kupwara, Rajouri and Poonch districts," Kashmir's leading English-language newspaper Greater Kashmir quoted highly placed unidentified sources as saying.
"The move has been prompted by the failure to detect armed intrusion in Kargil," the paper said.
The intrusion by Pakistan-backed forces in Kargil sparked a bitter two-month conflict last year with the Indian army that left more than 1,000 people dead on both sides.
The Kashmir Times said 29 electronic gadgets had been placed to monitor the Line of Control -- the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
The gadgets include warning systems, quick action systems and a "defensive network," the paper said.
"These gadgets have been connected to five monitoring centers through satellite and ground links," sources told the paper.
"This has been done to detect armed intrusion, exfiltration, infiltration and activity along the LoC," a top army official told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
Work on the project started in March this year and has been completed in many areas, the report said, adding: "Work for installing more such set ups at other places is under way."
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since their 1947 independence from British rule.
India accuses Pakistan of sending in armed men, most of them Islamic militants, to the Indian zone of the disputed state where a Muslim separatist campaign has claimed more than 34,000 lives since 1989.
Pakistan denies the charge but extends moral and diplomatic support to the unrest -- SRINAGAR (AFP)
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