Dark forces in Pakistan will not succeed: Chidambaram

Cautioning that infiltration levels were on the rise in Jammu and Kashmir since the beginning of the year, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Sunday stressed that "dark forces" in Pakistan "will not succeed in their designs" to create turmoil in the state.

"Since the beginning of this year, there has been an increase in the number of attempts to infiltrate militants into India and in the number of encounters on our side of the border. So far, 16 militants have been killed and 16 more arrested," said Chidambaram addressing chief ministers at the internal security conclave. Pointing to the anti-India rally held on Thursday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir by the Jamaat-ud-Dawaah (JuD), a banned frontal organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, to express solidarity with Kashmir, Chidambaram said these groups were "implacably opposed to India ... Let me make it clear: these dark forces will not succeed in their designs. We will defeat them whenever and wherever we confront them," said the home minister.