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| Militant groups change strategy, prefer silence recruitment | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 31: Reflecting a change in strategy, militant groups have now stopped putting photographs of new recruits on social media sites to avoid the human and technical intelligence network of security agencies.
Top police sources told Early Times that this year militant groups haven't made the identity of new recruits' public as they used to do earlier.
"Militant group haven't stopped recruiting innocent youngsters. Many families have come forward and filled missing reports but this time around we believe that militant groups are carrying out silent recruitment dive," they said.
Earlier, militant groups used to make photographs of new recruits public by putting them on social media. Photographs of new recruits brandishing assault rifles would also carry his details like name, parentage, residential address and name of the organization he had joined.
In past weeks, at least seven youths, most of them students hailing from south Kashmir, and central Kashmir's Budgam district, have been reported missing by their families. The youth missing from Shopian have been identified as Shakir Ahmad Wagay, a resident of Awneera and Naveed Hussian Tak, a civil engineering student and resident of Naina Batpora in Litter. Shakir Ahmad Wagay is pursuing diploma in Computer Engineering at SSM College in north Kashmir and Naveed Hussian Tak is a civil engineering student.
Two youth missing from Pulwama districts have been identified as Imran Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Arihal village and Bilal Majeed, a resident of Narbal village in Kakpora who is an undergraduate arts student.
Three more youth identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Dar, from Dailgam in Anantnag district and two from Budgam district identified as Adil Ahmad Ganie and Azad Ahmad have been reported missing by the families. It is suspected the missing youth might have joined militant groups.
However, Police says that the youth had only gone missing and it would be too early to announce them as militants.
2018 was Kashmir's bloodiest year in a decade after the killing of 267 militants, 160 civilians and 159 armed forces personnel along with the destruction of 31 structures and partial damage to 94. |
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