On a more general level, the secular decline in violence witnessed sinceSeptember 2001 can be attributed to Pakistan’s compulsions arising out of itsdomestic difficulties, the American and international pressure on Islamabad, andthe continuing successes of the counter-insurgency grid in J&K. Diminishedviolence, however, does not indicate a necessary decline in the capacity forterrorism, and there are clear indications that the infrastructure that supportsand sustains the Kashmir jihad remains intact in Pakistan, despite therecent crackdown in that country. Lt. Gen. P.C. Bhardwaj, the General OfficerCommanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command, told reporters on January 15, 2009,that "a number of terrorists training camps are still active inPakistan." While the exact present number of these camps is not available,official sources had disclosed in September 2008 that there were 45 such camps.Notwithstanding the recent crackdown on the LeT and its front theJama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD), sources indicate there are currently at least 1,500militants waiting at mobile and temporary launch pads for an ‘opportunity’to infiltrate into J&K. These militants have reportedly been divided intosmall groups (each comprising of 75-80 men) and have been kept, in readiness,across the Line of Control/International Border. Reports also indicate that theInter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, istraining women to carry out militant attacks. During interrogation of a womanarrested in the state, during the first week of January 2009 by the J&KPolice for providing logistical support for JeM and LeT militants, it wasdisclosed that the ISI is inducting women into militancy. The arrested womanreportedly confessed that she was trained by the ISI in the Bhiber and Kotliforests in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), and that there were presently about700 women receiving arms training in different militant camps run by the ISI.