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| Kashmiri terrorism spreading tentacles all over India | | With high alert and vigil in J&K, Islamic jehadis shifting to UP | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Jan 2
The pre-dawn Fidayeen attack on Tuesday at the CRPF camp in Rampur, killing seven Jawans and one civilian, together with about a dozen terrorist strikes in different parts of the country in the last one year, is indication enough that pressed hard in Jammu and Kashmir, where their several attempts at sabotage have been foiled by the alert security forces, the miscreants have shifted their area of operation to other parts of the country.
Paradoxically, while J&K has remained free of any terrorist strike in the last five months, UP alone has witnessed three major strikes during last eights months or so, including the terrorist strikes in the court premises in Lucknow and Gorakhpur explosion on 22 nd May 2007. The other parts in the country have witnessed six major strikes by the Islamic jehadis during the year that has passed. This include Samjhauta Express blast in February 2007, leaving at least 68 dead May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad, August 2007 Hyderabad blasts leaving 43 dead, October 2007 blast in Ajmer Dargah killing 2 and injuring another 28, October 27 Ludhiana cinema blast killing 6 persons and October 27 blast in Rajdhani Express in Guwahati taking a toll of 5 lives.
However the Fidayeen attack at the CRPF camp at Rampur marks a paradigm shift in the strategy and tactics of the jehadi groups, who are hell bent on making Uttar Pradesh their major theater of operation. While UP is on the terror radar for last 14 years, the state has witnessed 7 terrorist strikes prior to the present one during last seven years. The Varanasi blast on March 7 2006 killed 25 and injured hundred. Fidayeen attack on Ram janam bhoomi temple at Ayudhya on July 5 2005 was however foiled with all the five terrorists killed. Shramjeevi Express blast at Jaunpur in UP on July 28 2005 killed five persons. Sabarmati Express blast on August 14 2000 at Faizabad killed 9 persons. Again Kanpur explosions on August 14 2000 had killed 9, whereas 10 people had died in the Modi Nagar attack. In the Gorakhpur explosion in May 2007 7 persons were injured.
A fresh tide of terror attacks has made UP the worst affected state by terrorism outside Jammu and Kashmir. The security experts are baffled at the intensity of terror groups and their growing presence in the state. With the security forces in J&K tightening their nut bolts and keeping the maximum vigil thwarting the designs of the jehadis, the latter appear to have found UP as the breeding ground for their dance of death and destruction. Besides the above mentioned successful terrorist strikes in UP, the security forces have neutralized 80 terror modules in the last three years. All the major terrorist groups like Harkat-ul-Ansar, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami, Hizbul Mujahideen and Laskar-e-Toiba have shown their presence in UP, where they have created their carders among the local inhabitants, having all the required infrastructure.
It is a paradox of sorts that terror groups have ready to use infrastructure at their disposal in the state, with the authorities betraying total complacent. The state has not been able to come down on the support network of various terrorist outfits that has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five years.
It will be pertinent to mention here that UP has been always the breeding ground for the Islamic jehadis, including those who have no direct links with the Kashmir based terrorists. The banned Students Islami Movement of India (SIMI), was founded and has its head quarter in UP. The pre partition history of the Indian sub continent bears testimony that it were the Islamic fundamentalists in the United States, which is now called Uttar Pradesh, who were in the vane guard of the movement for creation of Pakistan, by partitioning the country, on the bases of two nations theory, propounded by the Muslim league. |
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