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| Militancy graph down but not out in Jammu Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 28: Even if the claim of the police Chief, Kuldeep Khoda, who has said that not more than 200 militants are active in Jammu and Kashmir, is to be relied on the security scenario in the troubled state is yet to be back to normal. Even if between 20 and 30 militants are active in Poonch-Rajouri belt, as Army officers claim, the twin border districts are yet to experience peace and normalcy. One may not expect graveyard type peace in the state but indications are that militants are trying to reorganise their cadre and activities. This is being done by carrying out suicide bomb attacks. The latest deadly car blast in Bijbehara in south Kashmir close to the police station, in which four people were killed and 17 others, including two security personnel, were injured has lent credence to the reports that militants, despite having lost major portion of their manpower, were trying to kick up violence.
The killing of three militants belonging to Lashkar-i-Toiba in Handwara area lends further proof, if it was needed, to the plan of Pakistan aided militants to reorganise themselves for kicking up violence in the state. In addition to this one militant was killed in Pattan in Baramullah district and his killing has confirmed reports that rebels, belonging to the dreaded Lashkar-i-Toiba, were active in various parts of the state.
One report has said that apart from Lashkar activists of Hizbul Mujahideen too are active and in look out for opportunities for giving teeth to their acts of subversive violence. In order to increase their man and machine power agencies across the LOC and the IB were trying to provide assistance to the militants in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir.
These agencies have framed a new strategy on their plan for increasing the level of ingress of militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons, into Jammu and Kashmir from across the LOC. This has become evident from the hide in infiltration bids from across the LOC and the IB. Official reports say that during the last less than three months the troops, guarding the border, have foiled as many as 45 ingress bids. Under the revised plan Pakistani troops and agencies bring militants in small groups on the border and help them in sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. They believe that even if out of 10 militants six manage to escape and one to two get killed mere infiltration of two militants into the Indian state could cause much aches for the Government and the security forces.
Security experts are of the opinion that in insurgency or in a proxy war, as has been the case in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 22 years, it is not the number of militants but the pattern of their operations that count. Since in insurgency the militants and the security forces do not get engaged in a face to face gun battles a small group of gun totting youths can cause death and destruction on a massive scale. Over the years people have witnessed a small group of militants killing scores of people or injuring security personnel or damaging security pickets and police stations and posts by resorting to gun and grenade attacks. And just one militant is needed to carry out a suicide attack on the pattern one has witnessed in Bijbehara and earlier near or on the entrance of vital Government and defence installation.
You need one man to plant powerful IEDs or hurl a grenade which can result in death and destruction. Hence neither Khoda nor the Army officials nor the people need to feel elated over the fall in the number of militants in the state. If really the security agencies want to restore peace to the state checking infiltration from across the border has to be made foolproof and the Government need to initiate people friendly policies, including the one aimed at resolving the problem of unemployment. |
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