Jammu Tawi, June 1 -- Pakistan is actively violating international telecommunication norms by deliberately beaming superfluous cellular signals across the border into Jammu and Kashmir aimed at providing a covert communication lifeline to terrorist groups operating in the Union territory, with a sharp focus on the Jammu region, officials said on Sunday.

Recent infiltration patterns, particularly in the south of the Pir Panjal range, indicate there has been a significant surge in telecom towers erected along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) whose signals reach various Jammu jails where hardcore terrorists are lodged.

While the mountains of the Kashmir Valley naturally block most of these rogue signa...