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| Shinde for effective measures to eliminate LeT, HM militants | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: If the latest assessment made by the Union Home Ministry about the security environment in Jammu and Kashmir is any guide one may have to believe that India's northern state is yet to be free from militancy related activities and violence. No doubt the Home Minister, S.K. Shinde, has admitted that the security situation in the state has improved, he does not want the security forces to show any complacency and that too in the light of reports indicating that groups of militants were waiting across the LoC and the IB for crossing into Jammu and Kashmir.
Shinde has been very specific about the activities of militants when he said that militant outfits like Hizbul-Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Toiba still remained to be the "dominant" militant groups operating in "some parts of Jammu and Kashmir" despite the situation showing improvement. These views the Union Home Minister had aired at the Home Ministry's Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting in Delhi the other day.
Shinde has said "these militant groups are mostly operating in districts of Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipore, Anantnag and Pulwama in Kashmir and Poonch, Ramban and Rajouri in Jammu region." He has indicated that this issue was being addressed from the security point of view and also taken up diplomatically with Pakistan. Reports have indicated that Shinde is to raise the issue of infiltration from across the LoC and the IB and the moral material support militants received from handlers across the border during his meeting with Pakistan Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, who is New Delhi on a three-day visit to India. Well the Home Ministry has directed security forces to coordinate their counter insurgency measures. Dilating on the counter insurgency measures Shinde has stated that a number of steps have been taken to tackle this challenge and neutralize the efforts and capabilities of militants and others to disturb peace in the State by inciting people to stage violent agitations and protests against the duly-elected institutions and authority.
Apart from upgrading the security grid on the LoC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir the Union Home Ministry was providing required technical and financial support to the State Government for further modernising the police force. Reports said that besides increasing the manpower in the State Police the Home Ministry had accepted the State Government's proposal for material and technical help for upgrading police weaponary.
According to these reports, various Armed police battalions were to be equipped with all those weapons and ammunition which are given to the paramilitary forces. This step was being taken to equip the State police with sufficient tools that could facilitate replacement of paramilitary forces and troops by the police within the civilian areas. |
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