Terror camps in Pak a threat to India: Defence Minister

Kochi, Aug 18 (PTI) India Defence Minister A K Antony
Tuesday said dozens of terrorist camps are "functioning
actively" in Pakistan along the Indo-Pakistan border and India
faced a threat to its security as long as these camps existed.

Asked about India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
assertions Monday at the Chief Ministers' conference in Delhi
that India had credible information that terrorists based in
Pakistan are planning to carry out fresh attacks in India,
Antony said "I have nothing to add to what the Prime Minister
had said".

"What the Prime Minister had said was a fact because even
today dozens of terrorist camps are functioning actively in
Pakistan soil along the Indo-Pakistan border," he told
reporters on the sidelines of a function at Amrita Hospital
here in southern Indian state of Kerala.

"As long as the terrorist camps are functioning in the
border areas in Pakistan soil, certainly there is a threat to
India, and it is a fact," the defence minister said.

Despite India's continuous demand after the 26/11 Mumbai
attacks, no concrete steps have been taken to completely
dismantle terrorist camps along the border, he said. PTI