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| Blind to surging violence, troop cut campaign goes on | | Infiltration rises drastically, but PDP says demilitarisation is must | |
NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, June 26: Two innocent civilians are killed and eleven other injured at Doda bus stand, 10 CRPF troops are injured in an attack on their camp, more than infiltration bids are foiled in a period of three weeks –yet in well guarded rallies of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign goes on for demilitarisation as the party leadership claims improvement in situation.
When Peoples Democratic Party threatened to withdraw support from the government on the issue of troop withdrawal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requested the Muftis to wait till summers for an exact idea of the situation. However, the PDP leaders refused to wait for three months and wanted the decision on demilitarisation “then and there”.
Showing political sagacity, the Prime Minister managed to save the coalition government of Jammu and Kashmir by offering PDP face saving in the form of three committees to study the issue of troop reduction after getting inputs on the ground situation. The committees are yet to submit their reports and the summers, as apprehended by the Prime Minister, have come with a renewed terror warning.
The Prime Minister’s assertion of wait till summer had a technical reason. The militant activities always pick up with the onset of summers for a variety of reasons including melting of snow and clearing of passages. When PDP had raised the pitch for demilitarisation, it was acute winter and the statistics of violence for past more than two decades suggest that insurgency related violence is always at its lowest in the winters.
With the onset of summers, militants holed up in the upper reaches travel down and also finding clear passages along the Line of Control the fresh batches sneak in to perform the acts of terrorism.
Apprehensions have come true. The fresh spate of violence and terror which had just begun with the beginning of summer has picked up enormously. While the isolated cases of killings too have picked, the level of infiltration has gone up so much so that the Government of India has expressed its acute concern over the recent trend.
The infiltration had seen a sharp rise in April when some 82 attempts were made - more than three times the attempts in the same month last year.
Sixty-four attempts were made in May - about the same as last year - with nine of the intruders being killed. Overall, 41 militants were killed in the state during the month with 38 of them by the army. Till June 24, a total of 40 militants have been killed in the state - including 14 on the frontier.
Amidst thus surging violence infiltration of militants from across the Line of Control, the Peoples Democratic Party is continuing with its load campaign of demilitarisation which is nothing less than risking thousands of innocent lives.
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