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| Vigilance stepped up along borders with Pakistan | | The drill is taken up every year ahead of the days when snowfall occurs | | The border troops have plugged the LoC and the IB to prevent infiltrating groups of militants from entering the Indian territory before the mountain passes and other infiltration routes in the Valley and Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region are covered with snow. This drill is carried out by troops every year soon after the onset of winters and before the snowfall occurs. After the snowfall, mountain passes and infiltration routes get blocked, making it difficult for the Pak-based militants to enter J&K. So, their mentors activate all the Pak-based trained terrorists ahead of the days of snowfall and try to infiltrate them, taking advantage of the poor visibility and fog that sets in several days before the snowfall actually occurs. To give a befitting reply to the Pak evil designs, additional deployments have been made all along the IB and the LoC. The multi-layer security bandobast on the borders is not only required to stop infiltrating groups of militants but also to prevent the fresh recruits in the valley from exfiltrating to Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir to receive training in the handling of sophisticated arms and ammunition. A few "misguided" youth in the valley are reported to have been hooked up by HM and LeT militant organisations. While the agencies are in touch with the parents of these "missing" youth to persuade them to come back homes, forces do not want to take any chance. They have plugged almost all the mountain passes and the known infiltration routes to block their march to the terror camps in Pakistan and PoK. A month or so back, a terror organisation had posted on a social networking site the photographs of three or so youth of the valley, claiming that they were among its newly recruited educated youth. The outfit had to face embarrassment after one of the youths, who was serving in a Punjab firm, had come forward, telling Punjab police that he was not a terrorist and that his photograph had been wrongly posted by someone. If we look at the trends of the last one month or so, we find that Pakistan and its terror groups have focussed all their attention on Kupwara sub-sector of Kashmir. A heavyily armed group of Pakistani terrorists is engaged in a gun battle with the forces for the past 11 days. According to 15 corps GOC, Lt Gen Satish Dua, this group had infiltrated from across the LoC. He also told media Tuesdaythat 50-60 militants were active in North Kashmir where a Lt Col was martyred in an encounter with militants in Kupwara woods last week. Forces also achieved a major success against militants this year by eliminating 56 of them, including infiltrators on the LoC in Kupwara.
Various requisite steps were also being taken by the government agencies to neutralise the militant organisations in the valley and ensure that the youth do not fall in their trap. More effective strategies are being framed in this connection. The agencies also need to keep a check on the anti-national and pro-Pak elements in the valley who have no work other than triggering trouble. They ought to be identified and booked under the law of the land. Those, who erected a Pak flag at the ancestral house of chief minister Mufti Mohammad Syed at Bijbehara also need to be apprehended and booked under the revelant laws. Giving them a long rope is likely to encourage others to commit similar mistakes. No more time should be given to militant groups, their sympathisers and anti-national elements in the valley and elsewhere in the state to consolidate their position. Let effective and meaningful steps be taken to nip the evil in the bud. |
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