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| J&K security situation under constant review: Jaiswal | | Lashkar for arms training to hardline Kashmiri women | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, May 20
Yet another anti-India scheme of things by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT): In cooperation with the Hizbul Mujahideen, deeply-entrenched militant outfit in Kashmir, hardline Muslim women are, in a phased manner, being roped in from different parts of the Valley as well as from parts of Jammu region for short duration courses in receiving arms training.
Intelligence inputs, in this regard, have become available at a time when the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is in the receipt of a set of reports, which suggest that Lashkar-e-Toiba is running training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for imparting training to its women cadre.
In fact, according to Sriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of State for Home, the "continued involvement" of terrorist outfits based in Pakistan and PoK--such as LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen--in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India by using ans leveraging the existing infrastructure of terror in PoK and other parts of Pakistan has been taken up with Pakistan in bilateral mechanisms establisahed for this purpose.
Jaiswal has also let it be known that besides continuing infiltration across Indo-Pakistan border, there have been incidents where terrorists belonging to terrorist outfits based in Pakistan and PoK have also iufiltrated into India through Indo-Bangladesh and Indo-Nepal borders for theior anti-India and terrorist activities.
When asked to spell out the government's remedial measures, Sriprakash Jaiswal said that "appropriate" measures had been taken to strengthen the border management depending on the ground level security situation. These include deployment of border guarding forces, electronic surveillance equipment, border fencing, establishment of border outposts (BOPs) and coordinated intelligence work by the lead intelligence agencies.
In replying to another question, Jaiswal put himself on record as aying: "As per available reports, Pakistan-based terrorist groups, particularly Lashkar-e-Toiba, have been exploring possibilities of induction of manpwer and terrorist hardware through the sea route".
On the demand of withdrawal of troops from Jammu and Kashmir, Jaiswal declined to be drawn into discussion. He simply said that the security situation in J&K is kept under "continuous review", and security forces are deployed in diferent parts of the State for different duties such as border guarding, prevention of infiltration, counter insurgency and area domination, guarding of vital installations and persons under threat and provision of general security in vulnerable areas.
Admitting that there have ben demands and reports from various sources from time to time about reduction of the level of security forces deployment in J&K, Jaiswal pointed out: "The approach of the government is to ensure that the deployment of security forces is related to the scale of problems and requirements on the ground".
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