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Too early to downgrade security grid | | | Is the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir conducive for downgrading the security grid? Does the situation,that has been existing in the state during the last six months warrant withdrawal of several Rashtriya Rifles battalions? These questions have started surfacing after the Union Home Ministry has mooted a plan under which some RR battalions, deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, were to be withdrawn for deployment in the Naxal hit areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra after the centre got worried over sudden rise in the activities of Naxals and Maoists in North East region of the counttry. The Union Home Ministry is in favour of deploying RR battalions in the Naxal affected areas so that the current level of violence was kept under check. No doubt there has been a marked improvement in the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir during the last six months but reports suggest the current lull may not be a permanent affair when agencies across the LOC were trying to push groups of militants, trained in guerrillas warfare, into Jammu and Kashmir. One cannot rule out the possibility of a hike in subversive violence once groups of militants, brought on the launch pads across various sectors on the LOC and the IB, were able to sneak into the state. That the reports on militants trying to cross into Jammu and Kashmir were confirmed by none other than the Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh. Singh has stated that even with the advent of the winter season militants continue to cross into Jammu and Kashmir despite upgraded security grid on the entire border. He has even talked about several training camps for militants still functional in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir. If attempts by militants at infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir continue and terrorists, operating within the state, trying to carry out regrouping by recruiting boys in the state such a situation does not call for any downgrading the security grid. If the reports of various intelligence agencies are to be relied on the security grid on the LOC and the IB and within the state needed to be further upgraded. This was needed to account for militants present within the state,whatever their number be. It is in this context that the Army authorities have not supported the Union Home Ministry's plan on withdrawing some RR battalons from Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose of deploying them in the Naxal hit areas. The Army authorities have favoured raising of new RR battalions which could be deployed in the Naxal affected areas. As far as the issues pertaining to infiltration, arms training camps and failure on the part of Islamabad in conceding vaious demands from the Indian side are concerned they are likely to figure during the ensuing talks between the Home secretaries of India and Pakistan. Though R.K. Singh has stated that he would be taking part in the talks without any pre-conceived notions he may not act as a passive spectator of the activities of terrorists and other extremist groups in Pakistan. Well those who demand withdrawal of AFSPA and troops from within the state need to wait for the outcome of the parleys between India and Pakistan.In the meantime it would be better for Islamabad if it sets a proper stage for upcoming talks by initiating action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage and against those extremists who were igniting anti-India sentiments in Pakistan.Hitherto, Pakistan has been assuring both Washington and New Delhi that it is by their side in the ongoing war against terror but in reality it continues to provide safe shelter to terrorists, extremists and reactionaries. Islamabad needs to know that the success of attempts at promoting cordial ties between India and Pakistan depended on the outcome of the upcoming home secretary level talks. |
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