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| Locals resent ISI sending youth to India as guides for infiltrators | | 2011 witnessed unusual protest in PoK: | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 27: As 2011 approaches its end, it would be proper to remind the readers of this year's unusual protest across the border. The people of PoK, which has maximum terror camps on its soil, were up in arms against the Pakistan's inter-services intelligence (ISI), asking it stop forcibly sending local youth to India as guides to infiltrating militants.
The protest was held on PoK roads on June 15 and 16. In more than two decades of militancy in J&K, it was perhaps the first protest by PoK people against the Pak spy agency. It showed that the ISI was faced with the shortage of guides for infiltrating militants.
The protesters had accused ISI of abducting youth from the PoK's Neelam Valley region and forcing them to act as guides to infiltrating militants. They had set June 17 as the deadline for returning the youth to them.
Two of the abducted youth were Mohammad Salim and Mohammad Iqbal, both residents of Falakan in Neelam Valley. The protesters said that, on ISI directive, the duo had infiltrated into Poonch to guide militants to safer areas.
This was perhaps for the first time that the ISI had recruited PoK youth as guides to militants, official sources said.
It showed that the spy agency was fast losing its base in the border areas of Poonch and Rajouri where people were now not ready to act as militants' guides, the sources added.
Sources said there were almost negligible takers of the ISI's militant ideology in the border districts of the state. In the absence of guides, the infiltrating militants were likely to be trapped and killed by security forces, the sources added.
Sources said there were still 600-800 militants in PoK waiting for an opportune moment to cross over to this side of the LoC. |
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