Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 22: Even as Kashmir has witnessed a spike in the targeted killings in the last around a year, the conspiracy to carry out the deadly terror strikes was hatched in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Muzaffarabad in September 2021.
Sources said the intelligence agencies have got credible inputs that in September last year the Pakistan’s ISI held a secret meeting with the terror outfits camping in Muzaffarabad on conspiracy “to the keep the pot boiling in Kashmir through targeted killings.” Sources said the meetings between the ISI and the terror outfits stretched for a few days at some undisclosed location where the final plan to execute the killings was discussed. Sources said the intelligence agencies have inputs that it was only after the “resolution passed in the terror meeting” that the targeted killings spiked in Kashmir. Within weeks of the meeting, Kashmir suffered from a deadly bloodbath at the hands of terror outfits. Kashmir has witnessed over two dozen targeted killings this year alone with atleast 16 targeted killings, including police officials, teachers and sarpanches, taking place in the first six months of 2022 alone. While the police had initially believed that by attacking members from different parts of Kashmir and from different sections of the society, “the terrorists wanted to show their presence”, the intelligence agencies have got to know that it was the conspiracy hatched by the ISI.
Soon after the September meeting, Kashmir witnessed bloodbath. On October 5 2021, prominent chemist M L Bindroo was killed in his shop in Srinagar, prompting outrage from political leadership and civil society.
Two days later, Supinder Kour, principal at Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Sangam, and Deepak Chand, teacher at the school, were shot dead after assailants checked identity cards of the school staff. Last year, 182 militants and at least 35 civilians were killed in the Kashmir. For over three decades, Pakistan has been unwilling to mend its ways as it continues to sponsor terror into Jammu and Kashmir.
The government, on the other hand, has beefed up security grid to foil the nefarious designs of the enemy country and its proxies in Jammu and Kashmir. |
