http://www.kashmirtelegraph.com/0504/three.htm
The new barrier consists of two fences with an eight-foot gap in the middle filled with coils of razor-sharp concertina wire. The fence snakes across the divided territory, hugging the Line of Control – a 1972 cease-fire line that divides the territory – and zigzagging through barren mountains as high as 12,000 feet. At construction workers complete a section on plains near Bakarpur, about 25 miles northwest of Kashmir’s winter capital, Jammu, Indian soldiers are digging up land mines laid when India and Pakistan almost went to war for a fourth time in 2002. Local farmers are taking advantage of the peace along the border to open up feeding grounds for their livestock, such as water buffaloes that graze next to the barbed-wire barrier along the border.
It is an expensive engineering feat, but Indian officials won’t say what it costs, or exactly what high-tech equipment is used for the barrier. The plan is to electrify the fence. If successful this would be a major accomplishment because many Kashmiris live with only intermittent power or none. Sinha didn’t want to discuss details such as planned voltage. “It will be a shock, but whether it will be fatal or not I cannot say. It is still being worked out,” Sinha said.
India has also tested a combination of Israeli and U.S. electronic equipment, such as motion detectors, thermal imaging cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to make it much more difficult to slip through the fence . An Indian intelligence official reported that at least some of the remote sensors haven’t performed very well under heavy snow conditions and freezing temperatures prevalent in Kashmir’s soaring Himalayas.