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If the senior functionaries of various security agencies,including the police,in Jammu and Kashmir are worried over the recent hike in the level of infiltration of militants from across the border they need not to be blamed.Their fears are genuine because during long years of antiinsurgency operations they have realised that the safest and sure way of ending the menace of militancy in Jammu and kashmir was to ensure drop in the level of ingress to zero.Over the years many experiments were conducted by the Indian troops and the paramilitary forces for halting the ingress of militants into the state but all those experiments have not proved 100 per cent success.There has been improvement and neither the LOC nor the International Border is as porous as they were between 1988 and 1993.Apart from deploying additional companies of troops on the LOC and additional companies of BSF on the International Border the raising of the eight feet tall barbed wire
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on the entire border with Pakistan had raised hurdles for the infiltrators.They still managed to sneak into the Indian territory though in small numbers.That is not a good sign.Even if three to five militants cross into Jammu and Kashmir per day it would mean an addition of 150 militants in one month.It is a serious matter because even a group of four militants can wreck havoc once they get an opportunity for striking with guns and grenades.What worries the senior officers of the security agencies is the way militants have learnt the technique of snapping the barbed wire or using ladders to jump over the tall fence.The officers are of the opinion that all experiments have been tried and there was hardly any scope for some new experiment after the troops had installed latest gadgets,including the sensors,for monitoring the movement of infiltrators.These very sensors have helped the troops to foil over 70 per cent infiltration bids but they have not given
the Indian forces an opportunity to make it totally impossible for militants to cross into Jammu and Kashmir.Cynics now talk of only one option left which was to raise a hman wall of soldiers on the over 1200 km long LOC and the IB.However,experts says this is not possible because of the terrain of the border and the weather vagaries.That the infiltrators are assisted by the Pakistani troops,guarding the border,in sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir is no longer a secret.One cannot reach upto the zero line of the border unless one has the permission from the Army authorities.If it is the case on this side of the border it is equally the case on the other side of the border.How then the militants come upto the last point of the border ?They are,as a matter of fact,usually brought by the Pakistani Army authorities and the ISI to the launching pads on other side of the border where they camp for a number of days till they get an opportunity to be pushed into
the Indian territory.Well one cannot ignore the fallibilities of the Indian troops guar ding the LOC and the IB.There is some lacuna otherwise it is not possible for the militants to cross into Jammu and kashmir.Agreed that 80 per cent of ingress bids are foiled but the 20 per cent intrusion itself is a matter of concern because till infiltration ends totally one cannot expect incident free days in Kashmir.Hence time has come for the Army authorities to review the border situation and plug the unplugged border routes.Besides this surveillance in the villages which touch the LOC and the IB is called for so that those militants who manage to give a slip to the border guards are accounted for in these villages which they use as their first halting place.
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