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| United Jehad Council’s feelers carry no weight in power corridors in Delhi | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Sep 12, :-Despite feelers thrown by leaders of the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council, favouring Government to declare unilateral ceasefire during the month of Ramzan, the centre has decided not to go in for any non initiation of combat operations during the holy month.
On the basis of the intelligence inputs, suggesting step up in the level of ingress from across the LOC and violence, the Government conveyed to those among the separatists and the mainstream political leaders, demanding ceasefire during the month of Ramzan, that it did not want to repeat the mistake committed in 2000 when it announced non-initiation of combat operations which allowed a chance to militants to strengthen their bases and extend their areas of operations in the state.
The Government, instead, conveyed to those who were trying to act as mediators between the United Jehad Council and the central intelligence agencies that it would announce unilateral ceasefire if militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir laid down their weapons and surrendered before the security forces. This offer has been rejected by not only the Jehad Council but by other militant groups.
Reports received from across the border revealed that the United Jehad Council wanted the Government to declare a unilateral ceasefire which could later motivate militant groups to follow suit. The reason for this change in the Council stand was that militant groups across the border no longer enjoyed as much patronage from the establishment in Pakistan as they used to have it prior to the Lal Masjid episode. After the Lal Masjid incident President Gen. Parvez Musharraf has directed the security forces to stop giving any patronage to militants. This instruction was the result of the growing activities of rebels in Pakistan who have started indulging in sabotage and subversion by carrying out series of bomb explosions in which scores of people were killed and others wounded in recent weeks.
Militants also, according to these reports, no longer feel free in carrying out their operations in Jammu and Kashmir after a large number of them, including field commanders, were killed in recent anti insurgency operations. What see to have added to their difficulties was the dwindling support of people.
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