Border Security Force (BSF) personnel stand guard near the India-Pakistan border ahead of the ‘Amarnath Yatra’, in Jammu, Saturday, June 28, 2025.
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Srinagar: Despite the recent setbacks inflicted by India’s Operation Sindoor, which successfully targeted several terrorist training facilities in Pakistan, Pakistan’s army and its spy agency, the ISI, are reportedly rebuilding the terror infrastructure — this time with more secrecy and sophisticated technology.
Terrorist training camps destroyed by Indian strikes are being reconstructed across various locations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), intelligence sources revealed. These facilities are now being designed to accommodate smaller batches of 20–30 terrorists, as opposed to the earlier practice of training 70–80 militants at once.
“The strategy is to avoid detection and limit damage in case of another Indian air or missile strike,” said a senior official familiar with the developments. To evade future Indian surveillance and targeting, the new camps are being fortified using advanced radar camouflage, satellite signature masking, and thermal masking technologies, making them harder to detect from satellites and drones.
“ISI has chosen new terror training centres at places like Athmuqam, Sardi, Lipa, Kotli, Kahuta, Jankote and Chamankot in PoK which are surrounded by forests and small mountains and where it is easy to hide the terrorists and keep them for long time,” the sources said.
Intelligence agencies' inputs also indicate that senior commanders from Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen have been roped in by the ISI to run these camps.
“The training of fresh recruits is being supervised not just by Pakistani handlers, but also by some former terrorists from Kashmir who have now crossed over and are operating from PoJK,” they revealed.
These developments come just weeks after Operation Sindoor, which was widely hailed in India as a successful strategic deterrent against Pakistan-backed terror infrastructure. However, the rebuilding efforts suggest that the terror ecosystem remains resilient and deeply entrenched in PoK, under the patronage of the Pakistani military establishment.
The Indian Army, meanwhile, is said to be keeping a close watch on these developments through multi-agency surveillance and technical intelligence, ready to act if any major threat materializes.
With the Amarnath Yatra set to begin on July 3 and recent attacks like the April 22 massacre in Pahalgam still fresh, these revelations come as a chilling reminder that Pakistan’s terror factories remain active — only better hidden.