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| IS INDO-PAK PEACE PROCESS ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE? | | TROOP MOVEMENT SPOTTED ACROSS BORDER, LINE OF CONTROL | | Jammu,September 1:-Is the Indo-Pakistan peace process on the verge of a collapse? This question has assumed significance following reports of movement of troops across the border in recent days.
Reports reaching Jammu from across the border have revealed that Pakistani Government has ordered deployment of additional companies of troops across the border.
According to these reports, at least three Brigades have been deployed across Chammb and Pallanwala sectors in Jammu division. These brigades have replaced the Mujahid battalions and the new brigades had been moved from Kharia and Gujranwala in Pakistan.
Reports said that during the last three days more than two armed and artillery battalions have been deployed on the border across Chamb and Pallanwala.Troop movement along Amritsar and Ajnala border was also recorded,these reports said.
Defence experts in Jammu said that the movement of troops across the border could not be part of army exercises which Pakistan planned.They said usually army exercises are held either in October or in March and for this Islamabad was supposed to inform Delhi in advance.And when India also planned for army exercises it would informed Islamabad.
These experts said that it was not clear whether the movement of troops was part of Islamabad’s strategy for taking all possible precautionary measures in the wake of massive uprising in Baluchistan after the killing of a senior Baluch leader,Nawab Akbar Bugti,in the Army operations. They said if it was not linked with Bugti’s killing it could be part of the plan of Islamabad to force Delhi to resume the dialogue and the confidence building measures which stand suspended following the Mumbai serial blasts,in which about 200 people were killed.
Reports available in Government circles in Jammu indicated that the Army authorities in Delhi and in Northern command had started reviewing the situation on the border.
In fact the top brass in the Army headquarters in Delhi is stated to have sought immediate details on military buildup from the field commanders in Jammu so that India too responded to the disturbing border trends.
It may be stated that soon after the attack on the Parliament on December 13,2001 Indian had ordered a massive military buildup, in the first week of January 2002 on the border. About five lakh additional troops were deployed on the LOC and Pakistan too moved over 1.20 lakh additional troops on the border. The clouds of conflict,however,receded with Pakistan President,Gen. Parvez Musharraf,announcing,in a speech on January 12,2002,that Islamabad was ready to reduce tension and withdraw troops from the border. |
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