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| Those who gave their today for Nation's tomorrow | | Are their families well cared for? | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 6 : Today nine policemen were injured in a deadly IED explosion in Valley's Sopore town. Terrorists first fired two rifle grenades at the Sopore police station. When a group of policemen came out of the police station complex, the terrorists triggered the IED they had planted inside a two-wheeler parked outside the police station complex.
The massive blast shook the entire Sopore town as people ran for safety and markets, traffic, schools, colleges and banks immediately shut down. It was precisely for heavy terrorist infestation that Sopore was upgraded to the level of a police district two years back.
There have been dozens of encounters in and around the Sopore town since the present violence started in the Valley in 1990.
Senior officers of Jammu and Kashmir police have been maintaining that "there are no militants in Srinagar city" and also that "the frontiers of militancy have been shrunken to its last bastions in the Valley." These statements are very encouraging and helpful in restoring the confidence of the common man law enforcing machinery and also in the rule of law.
The most important thing in a law abiding society is not have many people break the law, but have many are actually allowed to go scot free after they step outside the parameters of lawful, civilized behavior. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has seen a saga of sacrifices during the last twenty years by men in uniform including the army, the paramilitary forces and the local police.
The union home minister, P. Chidambaram has always maintained that the duty of law and order maintenance and internal security has to be ultimately shouldered by the Jammu and Kashmir police. It was in line with Chidambaram's directive that the local police took over security responsibilities from paramilitary CRPF personnel at a number of places. The duties of law and order are actually a state subject and the centre is there only to assist the state.
It is ultimately the duty of the local police to maintain law and order and do internal security duties in the state. This is the basic responsibility which the state police cannot shirk. At the same time, nobody can ignore the sacrifices made by the local police while doing counter insurgency duties. The reach of the state intelligence cannot be matched by any other agency given the fact that the level of human intelligence available with the local police cannot be matched by other intelligence agencies. It must be said to the credit of the state police and its intelligence apparatus that militancy, which once looked unmanageable, has been brought down to such levels.
What often gets overlooked while the state government lays emphasis on their duties and responsibilities is the debt the nation owes to the families of the local policemen who laid down their lives for protecting the sovereignty of the country.
The recent example of bodies of some paramilitary personnel being brought in a municipal garbage truck after they laid down their lives fighting the Maoists in Chhattisgarh has shocked the nation.
It is more essential in a state like Jammu and Kashmir where, the nation is still fighting cross border sponsored terrorism, that we must not ignore the welfare of the martyrs.
No nation can sustain its integrity and sovereignty if it overlooks the welfare of the families of its martyrs. They gave their today to protect our tomorrow. It is shocking to learn that the families of some of the local policemen and paramilitary personnel who died fighting the terrorist menace in Jammu and Kashmir are languishing in poverty and deprivation. Unless the government and the people collectively rise to ensure the welfare of the families of those who died fighting the terrorists, we might have fewer brave hearts in the future to risk their today for the tomorrow of this nation.
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