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| Militants unwillig on ceasing fire; explode grenade on police van | | |
Srinagar, September 25
Militants greeted the Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s plea to them to cease-fire during the month of Ramdan by exploding a grenade on a police van in the interior of the state’s summer capital killing one constable and wounding five others on the opening day of the month of fast on Monday.
Intelligence agencies’ reports indicated that militants of different hues were not in favour of offering a ceasefire during the holy month.These reports said that the rate of infilitration,which had dipped during August and the middle of September,had started picking up allowing activists of Lashkar-i-Toiba,Jaish Mohammad and Al Badr to strengthen their man power in Kashmir after the security forces eliminated more than 30 rebels during the last two months.
When four infilitrators were killed by the troops on the border in Uri on Sunday it indicated that infilitrators were exploring the possibility of sneaking into Kashmir from across Uri.Hitherto they had concentrated on the border belts in Kupwara,Poonch and Rajouri.
Senior officers of the security forces told Kashmir Independent Press on Monday that the dip in the rate of ingress of militants was the result of series of international conferences ,including NAM and the one in Brussels.The UN General Assembly session is said to have also motivated the establishment in Pakistan in directing the militants to adopt a go slow tactics while trying to infiltrate into Jammu and
Kashmir so that Islamabad in general and Gen. Parvez Musharraf in particular di not face any embarrassing situation if the level of ingress showed an upward curve.
The Government agencies said that LeT,Jaish and Al Badr were trying to push their activists,in a large number,into Jammu and Kashmir so that any offer of ceasefire made by either the Government or by Hizbul Mujahideen outfit proved a meaningless exercise.
It is in the context of these developments intelligence agencies,official sources said,has advised the centre not to think of announcing any ceasefire and even if Hizbul Mujahideen declared a ceasefire it should not be reciprocated by the Government as that would help activists of LeT,Jaish and Al Badr to extended their bases in the state.
These agencies have suggested to the Government that ceasefire offer could be considered once militants bid farewell to their guns.
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