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| Security scenario perception going qualitative change after Samba, Jaipur | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | May 14
News Analysis
The entire scenario on the militancy front in J&K has undergone a qualitative change in the wake of terrorists attack at Samba on the wee hours of Sunday, May 11. The tone and tenor of the political leaders and even the high ups in the security forces, who till Saturday were smoking the peace pipe and claiming the militancy in the state having almost been controlled, with all the loop holes and infiltration points plugged, has undergone a sea change within a day. The tall claims by the politicians, particularly the ruling ones in the state and the Centre as well as those at the helm of affairs in the security apparatus of the country about terrorism in the state being on its last legs, with most of the outfits having been wiped out, have proved hollow. This betrays the half hearted and a non serious approach of the concerned authorities to check the menace, by keeping upmost vigil, having the full logistic support and intelligence inputs.
It are the various wings of the security apparatus and intelligence agencies, whose assessment and in depth knowledge of the situation at the ground level stands exposed, as they are found to be in utter confusion about the reality of their claim of a serious bid by the terrorist to infiltrate from the Samba sub sector on the international border, on the intervening night of May 8 and 9 having been foiled. The agencies are still confused and not sure whether those who struck Kaili Mandi, a suburb of Samba town, killing six persons, were actually part of those infiltrators who had sneaked into our side on the Samba sub sector on the international border, on the night the BSF claimed to have foiled their bid and repulsed the same or they had sneaked earlier, through some other routes on the LoC and were hiding somewhere in between.
The authorities, who were lulling us to sleep by presenting a rosy picture on the militancy front, claiming the same having been more or less contained and near normalcy returned to the state, have now awoken to new reality of the situation at the ground level and are cautioning the people to be prepared for more surprise attacks and terrorist strikes in the days to come, with Amarnath Yatra and later elections taking place in the state and the sleeping cells of terrorists getting activised as well as more infiltration bids on the international border as well as the LoC being made. However it is the failure of the political dispensation more to appropriately respond to the prevailing situation, since they had been amply warned by some experts on the security, about the terrorist camps still being intact across the LoC and the IB as well as their active links with the cells inside our part of the state. The National Security Advisor M K Narayanan as well as the army commanders had been frequently asserting of the scenario still being grim and cautioning against any let up in the security arrangements.
In fact the perception about the security scenario and game plan of the terrorists all over the country is going to witness a big change, with the response to the more serious terrorists strike for away, in the Pink City of Jaipur in Rajasthan, still to come. Whereas in the case of terrorists attack at Samba on Sunday, the same can be attributed to the infiltrators from across the IB, who had sneaked into our side under the cover of heavy firing two days earlier by cutting the barbed wire on the border with sophisticated weapons, from where did come the saboteurs who triggered serious explosions in the Pink City on Tuesday, killing about a hundred people and injuring many others, is a matter of conjecture. Most probably the Jaipur serial bomb blasts have been the handiwork of some enemy agents and anti national elements within the country, who lying dormant otherwise, get activated and strike whenever they find the security agencies napping and whenever there is some let up in vigilance.
The Jaipur blasts are going to have a chain reaction, since in the wake of arrests made and interrogation held of the suspects there will be out cry of vindictive action on the part of the state government and even the Central agencies against a particular community, the same being made subject to unnecessary harassment. This has the dangerous potential to lead to communal divide and all the consequential fallout. |
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