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| Selective killings evoke concern | | | The Union Government has taken a serious note of target killings in Kashmir and has decided to send additional companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to the Valley.
Earlier this week, ultras shot dead a policeman and a salesman, Iftikhar Khan of a Kashmiri Pandit, Sandeep Mawa, in Srinagar’s old city. The ultras mistook Khan as Mawa and killed him in cold blood. A day after Khan’s killing, Mawa asserted that he had been informed by the police that militants are lurking around his shop at Bohri Kadal and he may be targeted. The warning had led to Mawa leaving his shop early in a small car rather than the SUV which he owned. And it saved his life, but his poor salesman, who went to get his car back later in the evening, was killed.
Terrorists by carrying out selective killings are trying to communalize the situation in the Valley. In 1990 they did the same forcing Kashmiri Pandits to leave the Valley. Now, again they are making an attempt to repeat what happened 30-years ago.
In the first fortnight of October militants killed eleven civilians, which included members of minority communities and non-local labourers. The target killings led to non-locals fleeing Kashmir as the fear and panic gripped them. Many Kashmiri Pandit employees, who had returned to the Valley after getting a job under Prime Minister’ employment package also returned to Jammu.
After the target killings, security forces killed 15 militants across Kashmir. Police said that the killed militants include the ones, who were involved in the civilian killings, but a few are still at large and they are being traced.
Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, visited J&K in end of October month and assured the people that the ultras won’t be allowed to succeed in their nefarious designs. He directed the security forces to go after the militants, their sympathizers and their aides.
In order to strengthen the security grid, the Union Home Ministry has started sending additional forces to Kashmir. The Union Home Minister while chairing the security review meeting in Srinagar had made it explicitly clear that target killings won’t be tolerated.
The additional forces being sent by the Centre will be deployed in the sensitive areas to provide a sense of security to the members of the minority communities and others, whom the ultras are out to target. |
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