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| ISI-sponsored outfits involved in terrorist acts:Jaiswal | | Lashkar-e-Toiba threatening Kashmiri youth | | NEW DELHI, MAR 15
The government of India has, once again, expressed itself against terrorist acts indulged in by Pakistan-based or ISI-sponsored terrorist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in several other parts of India. New Delhi, according to the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sriprakash Jaiswal, has been consitently taking up the issue of crossborder terrorism with Islamabad.
Giving this information in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour, Jaiswal said that involvement of Pakistan-based and Pakistani ISI-sponsored terrorist outfits in terrorist acts in different parts of India, including Jammu and Kashmir, had ben consitently taken up in all bilateral meetings at various levels. In his reply to a question by Ms Maya Singh, Jaiswal said that the number of terrorist incidents in J&K during 2005 and 2006 was 1990 and 1667 respectively.
Responding to a question by Thennalag G. Balakrishna Pillai, Sriparaksh Jaiswal said that in 2005 as many as 57 civilians and 189 security forces were killed in terrorist attacks. In 2006, the number of civilians killed was 389 and the number of security forces killed in the State was placed at 151.
In the Lok Sabha, Jaiswal stated that Pakistan-based terrorist outfit, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and other outfits, frustrated by the "los of their cadres" and changing mindset of the people of Kashmir Valley, had now started threatening Kashmiri youths through various means. These Kashmiris, as reported by the J&K government, were not influenced by the gen eral tghreats of the terrorists.
Answering a question by Ahir Chowdhury and Nikhil Kumar, Jaiswal said that the Centre in tandem with the Jammu and Kashmir government had adopted a multi-pronged approach to contain cros-border infiltration and terrorim in J&K. Jaiswal informed the House that the counter infiltration efforts are reviewed periodically at various levels in the J&K government, including the two Unified Headquarters headed by the Chief Minister of the State, and in the Central government.
Hansraj G. Ahir wanted to know if Kashmir's All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has shown its willingnes to have a discusion with the Union government to resolve J&K problem. "No", pat came the reply from Sriprakash Jaiswal. Jaiswal, however, recalled that the Prime Minister met a delegation of ther APHC led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on September 5, 2005 and on May 3, 2006. Jaiswal said that the government was committed to having dialogue with all groups and diferent shades of opinion in Jammu and Kashmir on "a sustained basis in consultation with the democraticallyelected State government whenever needed".
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