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| J&K, northeastern region face new threat | | Delhi alerts security agencies against female militants | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 4: Softer sex, too, has been clandestinely engaged in hit-and-run tactics. The number of females motivated and trained is not disturbing so far, knowledgeable officials say. This notwithstanding, the Government of India has cautioned police and other security agencies in strategically-important States against the 'hidden hand' behind raising groups of females, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir and north-eastern region, for carrying out espionage activity.
This follows the receipt of inputs from field intelligence units (FIUs), clearly suggesting an increase in the number of female 'spies' in these States in recent times. A number of females in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, besides Mizoram, have, according to these inputs, received training in use of small arms and bombs.
The Union Home Ministry has been fed with a sensational piece of information from some of these States. It says that sex workers in some cases have been pressed into service to secretly build bridges with functionaries of the local police and other security agencies, including the Army, the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Borderd Security Force (BSF) and Assam Rifles. Obvious aim of such a phenomenon is to carry out espionage activity.
Sources in the Home Ministry say that the use of females by anti-nationals is also meant to facilitate delivery of cash consignments to some underground militant hideouts not only in Jammu and Kashmir but also in Assam. According to these sources, there is "sufficient evidence" in relation to the involvement of the Hizbul Mujahideen in J&K in the task of luring young girls.
Three sectors in Jammu region are, according to intelligence reports, high on anti-India operatives' agenda for the clandestine recruitment of females as overground workers and couriers. These sectors have been identifed as Rajouri, Poonch and Doda. Sources told EARLY TIMES that the Centre had also cautioned the nation against the menace of cross-border terrorism and infiltration. The menace, it is forecast, will continue to pose a serious challenge to India in the times to come. A document available with the Home Ministry has let it be known that terrorist infrastructure "still exists across the border".
The documenty says: "Rise in terrorist activites is due to spurt in infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC)". And the document adds: "The rising trend in terrorist activites, if looked against the backdrop of the fact that necessary infrastructure still exists across the border to aid terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, makes it amply clear that menace of cross-border terrorism and infiltration will continue to pose a serious challenge to India in the times to come". Hence, the recomendation contained in the document: Indian security forces should intensify their fight against infiltration. A decline in the figure relating to this menace should not be construed as a positive change in the intentions of the militant organizations as well as their sponsors.
Another strong recomendation: Porous border will have to be blocked to make it extremely difficult for infiltrators to sneak into Indian territory. Unles India blocks porous borders, India will not be able to put effective checks on terrorist activites taking place in Jammu and Kashmir.
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