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| Sopore encounter proves militancy is far from over | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Dec 20: The Sopore encounter in which six LeT militants were killed by the security forces has thrown up some serious questions which must be answered before the State Government harps on the tune of normalcy having returned to the Valley.
According to the police the group had recently moved into Sopore as the cadres of the LeT operating in the area had been depleted in recent days.
Sadapora village is situated barely 3 kilometres away from Sopore town. The houses from which the holed up militants engaged the security forces in a sustained encounter for over 10 hours are situated close to the highway. This puts a question mark on the assertion that the number of militants in the Valley is only around 100 especially if a group of six could be present in a village adjacent to a town that has been and continues to be on the radar of the security forces. Top officials of the intelligence agencies both Central and State confirm without agreeing to be named that most of the militant groups operating in the State of Jammu and Kashmir have clear instructions from their masters across the borders to avoid armed contact with the security forces as far as possible. Since violence has already ceased to be fashionable after the 9/11 attacks in the US, suicide attacks and sensational terror strikes are received with universal condemnation.
It is a fact well known to the intelligence agencies that most militant groups have sleeper cells in cities, towns and villages. These sleeper cells are believed to be armed militants waiting for instructions to become active. In light of this background the political assertions that militancy has finally ended is fraught with serious implications.
State DGP, Ashok Prasad has said all weather fencing would be erected on the LOC so that a permanent check is put on infiltration. The DGP's views that all weather fencing would permanently put an end to infiltration notwithstanding, the fact remains that a geographical border like ours cannot be sealed by fences and hurdles. Geographical borders the World over are only checked through human, technical and ground vigil and surveillance. Had all weather fencing been the real solution then it should have been thought of many years before. The present LOC fencing is hardly any solution to checking the cross border infiltration. As an expert who saw the condition of the LOC fencing at our borders said two years ago, even a pregnant buffalo can jump over it. |
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