New Delhi: Amid the ongoing tensions with Pakistan over theabrogation of Article 370, Pakistani forces have started moving equipment totheir forward bases close to Ladakh.

"Three C-130 transport aircraft of the Pakistan AirForce were used on Saturday to ferry equipment to their Skardu airbase oppositethe Union Territory of Ladakh. The Indian agencies concerned are keeping aclose eye on the movement of Pakistanis along with the border areas," governmentsources told 

Sources said the equipment moved to the forward operatingbase could be support equipment for fighter aircraft operations. Pakistanis aremost likely to move in their JF-17 fighter planes to the Skardu airfield, theysaid.

The Indian intelligence agencies along with the Air Forceand Army are keeping a close watch on the movement of the Pakistani Air Forceas they can see almost the entire length and breadth of Pakistan.

The Pakistanis use an older version of the C-130 transportaircraft supplied by the Americans a long time ago and one of their militaryrulers Gen Zia Ul Haq was also killed in power when the C-130 in which he wastravelling crashed in August 1988 due to a bomb explosion.

Sources said the Pakistan Air Force was planning to conductan exercise of its Air Force and Army elements and the move of shifting planesto the forward base could also be a part of it. Skardu is a forward operatingbase of the Pakistan Air Force and it uses it to support its Army operations onthe border with India.

Pakistan has been trying to make a big issue out of India`sdecision of scrapping Article 370 and bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir into twounion territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.