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| Police treat existence of Al Qaeda in Kashmir as “old wine in new bottles.” | | | Srinagar,July 14 :-The announcement regarding the arrival of Al-Qaeda in Kashmir is being described by the police as an attempt at filling old bottles with new wine.
A senior police officer posted in the valley told Kashmir Independent Press on Friday “militants operating in the state have strong links with men of the Al-Qaeda.”He said militant outfits,including Jaish-e-Mohammad,Lashkar-i-Toiba,Harkatul Ansar and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami received patronage from Al-Qaeda leaders and activists.
The police officer stated that in the recent past several new militant groups,including Al Mansoorian,Al- Arifin,Save Kashmir Movement,Farzandani Milat and Al Nasrin,had appeared on the scene with serial bomb and grenade attacks on vital Government installations.But in reality these four rebel outfits had their origin in Lashkar-i-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
He said that new outfits,the offshoot of Lashkar-i-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad,were being floated to confuse and complicate investigations by the security agencies. He stated that mushroom growth of militant outfits,on paper,posed problems for the security agencies during search operations.
Political observers in srinagar said that militants,including those from Kashmir and Pakistan administered Kashmir,who had been sent to Afghanistan for arms training,prior to the American strike on Kabul,had been trained by men of the Al-Qaeda. In earlier American strike in Afghanistan among more than 30 militants killed included some Kashmiri boys indicating that Kashmiri militants and those foreign mercenaries,who were being pushed into Jammu and Kashmir from across the LOC,had links with Al-Qaeda.
However,intelligence agencies have begun a thorough probe in the claim of Abu-Al Hadeed that Al Qaeda had arrived in Jammu and KashmirThe police authorities have said that even if the claim of Hadeed was correct it meant that now onwards moral and material support to the militants,operating in Jammu and Kashmir,would be made available by Al Qaeda.In such a situation Al Qaeda would hold the strings of militancy in its hands.Those rebel groups which will play a second fiddle to Al Qaeda would receive adequate moral and material assistance and those who defy it are likely to face the wrath of Abu Abdur Rehman Ansari,described as Al Qaeda’s Chief commander in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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