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| Rehabilitation of misguided Kashmiri youth: Centre, State in a fix | | |
Srinagar, August 27:
Grappling with the issue of rehabilitation of misguided Kashmiri youth in Jammu and Kashmir both the centre and the state govt seems to have been caught in a catch-22 situation desperately searching for a solution.
Taking a final decision with an aim to address concerns of large chunk of Kashmiri youth population still camping in training camps across Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir is becoming a tedious process as 2008 polls are nearing.
Official sources said today “ rough estimates suggested over 25,000 Kashmiri youths,most of them belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen outfit,were staying in several camps near Islamabad and Muzaffarabad and are treated as lesser mortals because majority of them have been inactive even after having received arms training. Authorities in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad, according to the sources, plan to push these Kashmiri youths in small groups into Jammu and Kashmir so that Pakistan could be spared of the world blame that it was sheltering militants. The sources stated that Pakistan also wanted these militants to surrender before the Indian security forces so that they could lay dormant and whenever it was needed they could take up the gun again.
Reports with intelligence agencies said that between 2,000 and 3,000 militants,equipped with sophisticated weapons and explosives, had been brought across Poonch,Rajouri,Suchetgarh,Kupwara and Uri for infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir in small groups. These groups have been asked to attempt sneaking into the Indian territory only with the help of the ISI trained guides.
When the coalition Government was headed by Mufti Mohd.Sayeed the state authorities had approached the centre to take up the issue of Kashmiri youths,camping across the border,who wanted to return to the valley with an assurance to abandon the path of violence. However, security and intelligence agencies did not favour clemency to these youths and wanted all those who returned to Kashmir to spent at least two months in the joint interrogation centres enabling the police to prepare their record which could be used during surveillance.
Parents of these youths have started mounting pressure on ruling political leaders and those from the opposition to intervene so that their boys could be brought back to their ancestral villages. One police officer of the rank of DIG said that “investigations initiated on reports about missing persons had revealed that most of those reported missing in Kashmir and elsewhere in the state had crossed over to occupied Kashmir several years ago.” The inquiry had also divulged that some of the Kashmiri youths had opened small shops and wayside tea stalls. Others had been eking out their earning from working as skilled labourers with some business houses. Others were depending on the doles from the Government agencies.
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