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| Pak agencies trying to sabotage dialogue process | | | Two incidents registered in the Jammu region on Sunday indicate that Pakistani agencies,inluding the Army,continue to keep the kettle of violence and infiltration within the state of Jammu and Kashmir boiling.
For the last over three weeks there has been a lull on the border as far as incidents of ceasefire violations on the border are concerned. since the Mohali cricket tie between India and Pakistan and the interaction between Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,and his Pakistani counterpart,Yousuf Raza Gilani a sense of hope had dawned on the people on both the sides of the LOC that the level of conflict between the two neighbouring countries would reduce.Interestingly since March 31,when the two Prime Minister's met at Mohali and later at New Delhi for the purpose of reducing the trust deficit,Jammu and Kashmir has not witnessed any major border ceasefire violations by the Pakistani Army nor has there been any spectacular strike by the militants operating
within the state except the one related to the assassination of Ahle Hadees Chief,Maulana Showkat Ahmed.However,this assassination was said to be the result of organisational feud as the rival groups wanted to occupy the chair that Maulana Showkat had been occupying for the last several years.Not that agencies across the border had decided to suspend their monetary and moral support to the militants waiting on the launching pads on the LOC and those operating within the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
However, with the signs of peace enveloping the state, agencis across the border seemed to have got upset.And to fire the first salvo against peace move the Pakistani toops violated the border ceasefire when they fired rocket-propelled grenades and opened small arms firing on Indian posts at two places in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire. They fired RPGs and opened small arms firing on Indian posts in Banbat forward area in Poonch sector, without any rhyme or reason and without any provocation from the Indian troops guarding the LOC. Since the RPGs exploded away from the Indian posts there was no casualty or injury to anyone in the firing and RPG blasts, Despite provocation by the Pakistani troops by violating ceasefire, Indian troops guarding the borderline observed calm and did not retaliate and instead lodged a strong protest with the Pakistani field commanders against the incident.
In other ominous incident two commanders of Lashkar-i-Toiba,were killed in an encounter in Banihal area of the Jammu region.These two incidents have further lent credence to reports that whenever the Pakistani Army violate the ceasefire by opening gun and mortar fire on the Indian pickets and posts it is part of their plan to provide fire cover to the militants trying to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir and the Banihal incident indicated that militants continue to carve out hideouts and bases in various areas of the state.
In fact the agencies across the LOC are keen to kick up violence that could wreck peace initiatives that both New Delhi and Islamabad are planning to initiate.And one important announcement Islamabad made,which is bound to encourage New Delhi to reopen the channels of composite dialogue, was that sufficient evidence has been established against seven persons for their involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terroist strike.Pakistan Government has said that they could be tried in the court for receiving stern penalty. This is one part of the game while there are agencies in Pakistan that try to create one problem or the other for the establishment in Islamabad.These agencies know it well that bilateral talks were being held in various stages and under various levels during the next three to six months which were aimed at narrowing the gulf that exists between New Delhi and Islamabad.It is in this contet that these agencies wish to kick up some
border conflict and inrensify militancy related violence which could force New Delhi to suspend again the process of dialogue.
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