In the Kashmir valley, the police are still in disbelief at the letters they have received from hundreds of miles away.
"If that's my son who is involved in any such terrorist or separatist activity. I disown him and I don't want the dead body of him to be brought here and burry here," reads one.
From Kerala, the parents of two killed alleged terrorists have written to the Kashmir police, calling their sons traitors. The two men were among five killed trying to cross the Line of Control.
Security forces are alarmed at this new turn in the Kasmir insurgency. And they worry whether the Valley is being used as launchpad for a new kind of pan Islamic militancy. The police in the south echo their concerns.
Recent arrests have shown that the four boys who travelled from the south to the north and wanted to cross over into Pakistan were not an aberration.
Police sources tell NDTV that at least 200 men have been recruited from three different districts across Kerala. The strategy of the hardline militant groups appear to have been to target young men bellow the age of thirty, send them in batches to Hyderabad for religious studies and physical training and then push them onwards to the Line of Control. But the police say they don't know how many men may have actually crossed over.
In Kerala where 27 per cent of the population is Muslim, the police worry that an underground network of fundamentalist groups has managed to throw its web far and wide.
Now, they have begun a massive search operation to see how many men have gone missing in these districts in recent months. As they join the dots, from Kerala to Kashmir, in a chilling new map of terror.
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