Udhampur, Aug 26 - Charging Pakistan with providing logistics support to the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, a top Indian Army commander said Wednesday violence levels in the state had come down but the threat of militancy still existed.

'Logistics support is being given to the militants by Pakistan. We are facing and fighting terrorists on daily basis, which means that threat is there,' Lt. Gen. P.C. Bharadwaj, the general officer commanding-in-chief of the army's strategic Northern Command that guards India's borders with Pakistan and China, told reporters at its headquarters here, 70 km from Jammu.

'The level of violence has come down and there are significant signs of normalcy,' but the militants were now 'taking to the agitational approach of the people and to crimes linked to human rights violations to further their cause of disturbing the peace', he maintained.

The army, however, was pursuing a policy of zero tolerance to human rights violations and 'this year, there has been only one case of such a violation', Bharadwaj said. The maximum violations - 1,790 - were reported way back in 1990, he added.

Noting that the 'biggest challenge before the army in Jammu and Kashmir is to bring in peace, maintain it and put the state on path of development', Bharadwaj estimated that 75 terrorists have so far sneaked in across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan against 45 in the corresponding period last year.