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| Cross-border trade in J&K helping anti-India forces | | Time to review | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 7: The charge that the cross-border trade between this and other part of J&K had been only helping anti-India forces across the border was not without any basis. It was a well-founded charge and the recent revelations made by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) established beyond any doubt that the charge was absolutely correct and that it would be suicidal if the the cross-border trade was allowed to go on in the way it hasd bee happening since 2008.
A number of reports have appeared on this subject. One report has said, a top Hizbul's chief of operations in the Valley Muzaffar Ahmad Dar, presently lodged in Central Jail Srinagar, had been able to get funds from across the border through cross-border trade.. The report was based on the revelation made by the NIA that also highlighted the "need for intense scrutiny of exchanges taking place in various fields between the two countries". The NIA has mentioned this in its charge-sheet in connection with a case of terror funding in which the intelligence agency claimed that Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin was "funding from Pakistan for its activities in J&K through the cross-border trade". The charge-sheet said: "Dar was trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan and has been carrying out terrorist activities since the late 1990s before he was arrested in 2009. Even after his arrest, he continued his activities from inside Central Jail Srinagar".
Hizbul Muhahidden has been the most dangerous terror outfit active in J&K perpetrating terror attacks and it has been enjoying full backing of the Pakistani Government especially of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). The terror outfit was formed in September 1989 and its headquarters is located in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied-J&K. The organization, everyone knows, is headed by Syed Salahuddin, who has repeatedly said that his organization was fighting for the Pakistan cause in J&K.
According to the report, the dreaded anti-India terrorist organization has been exploiting or misusing through its operatives working at right places the "barter system of trade in vogue in trans-border trade". "Hizbul under-invoices the goods sent from across PoK/Pakistan and Indian counterparts send equivalent goods as per barter system and the extra money generated in this exchange goes to Hizbul for terror activities…The spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and other agencies of Pakistani Government had been funding activities of Hizbul Mujahideen in J&K through cross-border trade between India and Pakistan. This and other methods of funding had led to an inflow of Rs 80 crore into the coffers of the terrorist organization during last eight years".
It bears recalling that trade between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad began as part of a 2008 agreement between India and Pakistan as a "confidence building measure". The two countries had agreed to trade 21 listed items between the divided parts of J&K on a barter basis. To assess the size of the trade between the two parts of Kashmir, a report says that from 2008 till January, goods worth Rs 345 crore were exported while Rs 600 crore worth of items were imported from Chakan Da Bagh side in Jammu region and that in Kashmir's Uri-Muzaffarabad sector, goods worth Rs 1,033 crore have been exported from Srinagar whereas the import figures stood at Rs 1,680 crore during this period.
Now that the NIA has made these frightening revelations, it's time for the government of India to review what had been the consequences of the cross-border trade as far as the India's paramount sovereign interests and security-related interests are concerned. The best thing to do would be to do away with the system, as it is being exploited by anti-national forces to the hilt to damage India. |
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