In a significant statement, senior Army officials have said they believe the American weaponry seized by the Taliban from the Afghan Army is likely to produce devastation in Pakistan first before attempting to be smuggled into India. The Pakistan Army and terrorist groups supported by it are taking huge supplies of these weapons after the Afghan Army surrendered before the Taliban and gave away all its weaponry.

"The way the ISI-backed terrorist groups in Pakistan have been strengthened by the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, it is most likely that the weapons would be first used for violence within Pakistan itself before they reach India," top Army sources told media. The weapons looted by the Taliban include over five lakh M-16 and M-4 assault rifles along with the American Light Machine Guns and 50 calibre weapons on the armoured vehicles.

The arms supplies also include several sniper rifles and steel core bullets, bulletproof vests, and armoured piercing rounds. Apart from the small arms, data suggest that Pakistan is also likely to get control of some of the 2,000 armoured vehicles, including Humvees, 40 aircraft including the UH-60 Black Hawks, attack helicopters and ScanEagle small drones. Even though the bigger military equipment is likely to be traced if used by the Taliban or Pakistan Army, the smaller arms can be easily used outside Afghanistan.

Sources in the Army have also said that the security forces in the Kashmir Valley are fully combat-ready to tackle an entrance of these weapons inside the Kashmir Valley or other places. The counter-infiltration and counter-terrorist grid is robust and would be able to tackle any such approach by the Pakistan Army or the terrorists backed by it. Sources said that if the Pakistan Army tried to cushion the Afghan Taliban into the Indian areas they would be dealt in the same way they were dealt with in the 1990s. Sources have said that the Afghan terrorists are completely radicalized and would not surrender in encounters.

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