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| Intelligence agencies baffled over Pak accuracy to hit targets | | On earlier occasions, Pak shells exploded in noman's land, this time these hit targets; agencies' search for a "mole", if any, begins | | Bharat Bhushan
RS PURA (JAMMU), Oct 9: Go to any forward region here, you will find everyone discussing the accuracy with which Pakistan has this time hit its targets. This dominates their discussion. Acquaintances will share the "secrets", which otherwise are talk of the town, while others would take you as aliens and try to maintain a distance from you. This is the scene in every border village here.
"You know, this has happened for the first time in my lifetime. I have never seen Pak shells hitting targets in villages with such an accuracy. I doubt someone has apprised Pakistan of the exact location of houses and other important buildings in the Indian border villages. If it turns out to be true at some point of time, I tell you it will be very serious," said Mohan Choudhary.
"There are some suspects also. There are some people who are known border crossers. Who knows someone from among them must have come in contact with ISI, the Pak spy agency," said Praveen, another R S Pura resident.
"International Border (IB) is 3 to 4 km from Arnia and other villages, that this time have become the target of Pak shells. Almost every shell has hit the target. This has surprised us all," they said.
The issue is not only haunting the border dwellers but it is giving sleepless nights to forces and intelligence agencies too.
A senior officer of an intelligence agency said, "Almost all of Pak shells have this time hit targets in villages. This has never happened before. On earlier occasions, only one or two shells used to explode in the villages and that too in no man's land without causing any harm to life and property of the people. All other shells used to explode in fields away from the inhabited areas."
He said some suspects of Arnia and other border villages were under the radar of intelligence agencies and their activities were being observed. "If need arises, they may be picked up for questioning," he added.
The officer said their suspicion "gets strength from the fact that since the inception of militancy in J&K, some people of border villages have been found involved in incidents of spying for the enemy".
And, his suspicion is not illogical. When the railway track was first blown up in a bomb blast near Vijaypur here in year 2000, a resident of R S Pura had turned out to be the main accused.
Though the officer neither confirmed nor denied having rounded up any suspect, the word is that two suspects from a border village have been picked up by forces. Police also refused to make any comment on this issue, terming it as "very sensitive" in nature.
The doubts of the people in this regard are also not unfounded but the problem with this Government is that it has never bothered to hold indepth probes into such allegations in the past. When Devi Singh was abducted by armed men from his house in Hiranagar sub-sector of Kathua over a decade or so back and taken to Pakistan, locals had alleged the involvement of a family in the incident. This family was not picked up for questioning. Twenty solar-activated rockets, each weighing 70 kg, were transported on camel backs from the IB to the Tawi river bed. These were found fitted on tree tops close to M A Stadium here a few days before the Republic Day. The main Republic Day function is held at M A stadium every year. The man, whose camels were alleged to have been used in this anti-national act, was not touched by police. Rather no effort was made by any of the agencies to dig into the case.
In this background, there is a strong feeling among the sufferers of Pak firing about the presence of enemy agents in the border villages. Agencies have also not ruled out this possibility. |
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