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| Major crackdown against narco-terrorism initiated after formation of ANTF | | | ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, May 17: Days after the formation of Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), a major crackdown has been initiated against narco-terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. To begin with, a joint operation group of Excise Department and the Jammu and Kashmir Police destroyed the poppy fields spread over several kanals of land in Bhaderwah and Drabshalla areas of Jammu division.
As per the details available with Early Times, there are inputs that funds generated out of poppy cultivation is used by Pakistan and their proxies to finance stone-pelting and terror-related activities in the Kashmir Valley. To continue with their asymmetric and proxy warfare against India, Pakistan is using the Kashmiri youth as cannon fodder.
Besides using e-jihad to radicalize young impressionable minds to lure them to gun culture, Pakistan is now polluting blood of young Kashmiris by pumping drugs. Earlier, the poppy cultivation was confined only to South Kashmir area. But during the last few years, farmers in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir are forced to cultivate poppy. Cultivation of poppy to extract heroin in Jammu and Kashmir is seen as an extension of Golden Crescent -Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan - areas that are known for heroin production and illegal drug trafficking.
This is wakeup call is for those, who still consider Pakistan as their well-wisher. Already two generations of Kashmiris have been lost to terrorism aided and abetted by Pakistan and now they are using the third generation of Kashmiris as cannon fodder for their vested political and strategic interests in the region.
The drive in Chenab belt was carried out by ETO Doda Kishtwar Range Tariq Mehmood along with Excise Inspector Touseef Mustafa Wani, Waseem Zarger, Touseef Kamal and others at behest of Excise Commissioner Rajesh Kumar Shavan who has order for major crackdown against poppy cultivation in Chenab belt as well as in South Kashmir which is a hub of poppy cultivation along with Kupwara District of North Kashmir. According to officials, the drive will remain continue till the desired results are achieved on ground.
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