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| Rebel attacks on security pickets aimed at derailing dialogue process | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 16: The militant attacks on the police station at Sopore, in which one policeman and a civilian were killed and six others injured, and on a CRPF picket at Kawdara in interior of Srinagar are part of the plan of demoralising the security forces, especially the police that has begun mounting pressure on the terrorists by eliminating a large number of them during the last three months. These attacks are also aimed at sabotaging the ongoing secret dialogue process between the Kashmiri separatists and Delhi and at derailing the peace process in the state.
Militants, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, are under instructions to strike against the security pickets, the recent one in Lal Chowk being part of the instructions, to keep them engaged so that added pressure was mounted on the Government. Instruction one:"fire intermittently and carefully. It will cost them more and put pressure on them.” Security experts, while deciphering the meaning of this instruction say that agencies across the border want Delhi to come under pressure so that it resumed the composite dialogue which has remained stalled during the last over one year.
These experts are of the opinion that the instruction also meant that the Kashmiri separatists will come under pressure so that they do not come forward for initiating dialogue with Delhi. In fact agencies across the border are not in favour of police being given the responsibility of tackling law and order in major districts of the Kashmir valley. Once the troops and the paramilitary forces were withdrawn and the police was given the law and order responsibility it would mean that the situation in Kashmir has become normal. This, militants do not want to happen.
The GOC-in-Chief,Northern Command, Lt.Gen.B.S.Jaswal too has stated that Pakistan would make every attempt at scuttling the process of normalcy and peace in Kashmir.He is of the opinion that the level of infiltration had gone up because agencies across the border wanted to push into Jammu and Kashmir more groups of militants for disrupting the process of peace and normalcy.
Handlers of militants across the border feel satisfied with the intermittent rebel strikes against the security pickets and posts. One such message,intercepted by the police and the intelligence agency,is "Kashmir ki Tarekh, Insha-Allah dobara apni use Tarz per aayegi.Bada Acha Assar Pad reha hai Is ka."(These attacks will bring, God willing, the Kashmir issue on its old pedestal. Its impact is very good.)
Security agencies, including the troops, guarding the border, have been instructed to be vigilant and firm so that militants were not able to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir. While the incidents of militancy related violence had dropped by 30 pr cent in 2009 when compared to 2008 the level of ingress had increased. Government reports inedicate that during the last over 15 months there were 413 infiltration attempts in which 93 militants were killed but 110 had succeeded in sneaking into the state.The report says that 70 per cent of the infiltrators were foreign mercenaries confirming earlier reports that Pakistan had started banking on the activists of Lashkar-i-Toiba for giving teeth to the ongoing Jehad in Kashmir. |
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