Srinagar, Nov. 26: Militant training camps across the Line of Control and other terror infrastructure shut after 26/11 were revived a little later, a Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba insurgent arrested recently has revealed.

“The (training) centres were re-opened and instead of permanent camps, temporary ones came up in the forests (of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir),” Saleem Rahmani, 24, said today at a news conference where he was presented by police.

The Pakistani army had ordered a clampdown on the camps after the Mumbai attacks under pressure from New Delhi, and several top Lashkar commanders who had allegedly plotted the rampage were arrested. Rahmani said he was part of an eight-member Lashkar squad that had infiltrated the Valley recently.

Kashmir police chief S.M. Sahai claimed there were many more waiting to sneak in — he put the number at 250 to 300 — from what he called five “launching pads” across the LoC. “Around 50 militants are present in each camp. They are always ready to infiltrate. There were some 45 infiltration bids during the past five months.”