NEW DELHI: Central intelligence agencies have begun tracking cross-border conversations, chats, emails and messages exchanged after May 7 – the day Operation Sindoor was launched – between persons in J&K and other border states, and elements based in Pakistan. The purpose, according to sources in the security establishment, is to identify the terror support cells or “traitors” on the Indian side with linkages to Pakistan-based jihadi outfits or the Pakistani deep state, including ISI.The exercise to sift through the voluminous communication data using all possible modes is aimed at finding out if terror sympathisers on the Indian side had reached out to their handlers or ISI as Operation Sindoor unfolded. “All those found to have been in touch with terrorists, terror outfits and ISI, etc, after May 7 will be closely watched and, if need be, detained for questioning regarding their likely terror linkages and sympathies, besides other motives,” a senior officer of the central security establishment said. The officer said the focus would be to probe if the suspects based in J&K and other border states were leaking sensitive information to their Pakistani contacts, including but not limited to Indian troop movements.“This exercise will help agencies investigate the larger but still invisible overground workers’ network in J&K and beyond. This will give NIA and J&K SIA a whiff of the likely terror conspiracies they may be planning on their directions of their Pakistani terror masterminds and ISI,” said an officer.