Pakistan has activated at least 20 terror camps and another20 launch pads along the Line of Control with increased efforts to ensureinfiltration of as many terrorists as it can into Jammu and Kashmir before theonset of winter, officials said on Tuesday.

 The terror trainingcamps and launch pads, with at least 50 terrorists in each, were activatedafter these were temporarily shut down following the bombing of a CRPF bus inPulwama in February and subsequent retaliatory bombing of terror camps inBalakot by the Indian Air Force.

Pakistani agencies were desperately looking to carry outspectacular terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and even in the hinterlandsfollowing the abrogation of the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir underArticle 370 and its bifurcation into two Union Territories, a security officialsaid quoting intelligence inputs.Since the terrorists have not been able tocarry out any major attack, the Pakistani agencies were trying hard to push asmany terrorists as they can into Jammu and Kashmir.

"We have intelligence inputs that Pakistan hasactivated at least 20 terror training camps and another 20 launch pads withabout 50 terrorists in each. All these terrorists will infiltrate through LoCwherever and whenever there are opportunities," the official said.

Even though the security forces remain on high alert andhave enhanced their vigil along the border, many terrorists have been able toinfiltrate in recent weeks.

Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Dilbag Singhhas said 200 to 300 terrorists are active in the state and Pakistan hasintensified cross-border firing to push in as many of them as possible beforethe onset of winter.

"The number of active terrorists (in Jammu and Kashmir)is between 200 to 300... The figure usually does not remain static and goes upand down," Singh told reporters during a visit to the border district ofPoonch on Sunday.

Singh has also said a large number of ceasefire violationsare taking place in both Kashmir and Jammu regions.The ceasefire violationshave been taking place in Kanachak, R S Pura and Hira Nagar (along theInternational Border) and quite frequently along the LoC in Poonch, Rajouri,Uri, Nambla, Karnah and Keran.

There have also been intelligence inputs that top terroristsbelonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad,operating in Jammu and Kashmir, have recently held a meeting and decided tointensify their attacks on security forces and other sensitive targets, anotherofficial said.

Following the central government's August 5 announcement ofthe abrogation of the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan hasalso intensified its diplomatic offensive against India, especial in the West.

In the recently concluded United Nations General Assembly inNew York, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the situation in Kashmirwould deteriorate once the restrictions imposed there is lifted.

"You hope for the best but be prepared for the worst,"he said.

Khan said once the curfew is lifted, "there will be areaction" and India would blame Pakistan."Two nuclear-armed countrieswill come face to face, like we came in February," he said, a reference tothe stand-off between the two nations following the Pulwama terror attack andIndia's subsequent airstrikes on terror camps in Balakot in Pakistan.

The central government has been maintaining that there is nocurfew or restriction in Jammu and Kashmir and Section 144 of the CrPC (banningunlawful assembly) is in force in only 10 police station areas of Kashmir, outof 196 police stations.