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| Govt. won't tolerate leak of military information | | Sensitive Jammu sector faces threat from ultras | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 10: Government sleuths have cautioned police and other security agencies against what has been termed as the "developing threat" from Islamist terrorists to the sensitive Jammu sector, including the city of Jammu. The "developing threat", the J&K police and other security agencies have been warned, can take the form of the use of massive fire-power by adequately armed terrorists in public places and against government installations.
The warning is contained in a report prepared by a field intelligence unit (FIU). The report is said to have made a pointed reference to the two important developments--first, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has managed to create 'sleeper cells' in the vicinity of Jammu, and, second, the morale of the underground militants in the area "is believed to have got bolstered following the arrival in the Jammu sector of additional Islamist rebels in recent weeks".
It is official: Police and other security personnel have neutralised a sizeable number of terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. India's preparedness to deal with them is absolute. Significantly, however, official agencies do not deny the stepped-up efficacy of armed Islamist rebels or terrorists. Neither do they deny the presence of an unspecified number of terrorists in the Jammu sector.
It is also official: The number of militancy-related incidents has slightly come down, but militancy has not. According to intelligence inputs, dozens of militants have, in recent times, managed to sneak into the vicinity of Jammu and adjoining parts after abandoning their hideouts in Doda, Rajouri and Poonch districts.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directed the Army authorities in J&K to tighten cyber security with a view to ensuring that incidents of leakage of classified information do not take place. In fact, after the Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, called upon the chiefs of Armed Forces to evolve new norms for computer and cyber security to prevent leak of sensitive military information, the MoD issued fresh guidelines on cyber security.
The guidelines have been notified and have been circulated among all military establishments across the country. Military personnel, under the new set of instructions from the Defence Ministry, have been debarred from taking out computer printouts and copying or transferring data. Personnel of the three Services have been informed in unmistakable terms that on a select group of officers would be authorised to carry out such activities and their actions would be controlled through the use of security passwords.
EARLY TIMES was officially informed that the Defence Minister had made it plain to the chiefs of three Services that there was a gross violation of norms of secrecy and confidentiality in some recent cases. This, significantly, has been followed by the review of instructions regarding permission for commercial employment for retired service personnel.
Besides, instructions have also been issued to disable USB ports, pen-drive ports, floppy and CD drives. All these, under the new set of guidelines, are to be retained on specified computers only. |
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