Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 1: Quoting inputs from different sources, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) National Executive member and J&K Chief Spokesperson, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that there was an ominous Kashmir-Kabul militancy nexus in the making at the behest of ISI and that Pakistan. Same are trying to push in Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) cadre into the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan in expectation of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next year, while simultaneously transferring militant cadre recruited from its Khyber Paktunkhwa province to boost militant ranks in the Kashmir Valley.This has also been confirmed by the US Intelligence,he claimed.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, in recent times, Islamabad was constrained to divert as many as 150,000 troops to the Pakistan-Afghan border but with the US troop withdrawal approaching and Pakistan sensing that it may soon have a friendly regime ensconced in Kabul, the Pakistani army and LeT are once more concentrating on destabilizing Kashmir.He cited LeT chief Hafiz Sayeed who had in a recent interview said "Full-scale armed Jihad will begin soon in Kashmir after American forces withdraw from Afghanistan." Dr Jitendra Singh warned, Kashmir is starting to simmer again and as a well-calculated design, attacks by Lashkar's Border Action Team (BAT) to ambush Indian Army patrols have gone up.He cited figures to say that not only there is heightened border escalation evident from the fact that there have been as many as nearly 20 LoC violations in just last 10 days of the month of August but the situation inside the Valley has become equally violent. |
