Pakistan Army's Strategic Forces Command has moved as many as seven battalions - roughly 5000 to 7000 soldiers into Pakistan Occupied Kashmir since June 15, sources said on Friday.
CNN-News18 learnt this was confirmed after the Indian Army managed to get satellite imagery of the movement of these seven additional battalions to POK.
Sources said that the immediate reason could be the fear of political violence because of the elections which are due on July 21.
The second reason could be that the Pakistan Army is worried that similar cries for Azadi may erupt from PoK after seeing the protests in Jammu and Kashmir over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani.
Such a large contingent of troops may also have been moved with the aim of providing cover for terrorists to infiltrate into India.
Wani was killed on July 8 in a gunbattle with government forces in Kashmir, sparking off days of deadly violence that have left at least 37 dead so far.
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