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| Army's no to AFSPA amendment and NC's plea for repeal of Act | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 13: Senior Army functionaries are said to be averse to the plan of the Government to incorporate mild modification in the AFSPA with the regard to the blanket powers that security forces enjoy, under the Act, for arresting or for opening fire on subversive elements.
Reports indicated that Army functionaries were not in favour any amendment in the Act because even if the security situation had improved the security forces required the legal cover for carrying out counter insurgency operations.
These functionaries said that the 22 year old Pakistan sponsored proxy war was totally different from the open war and one cannot predict in advance the turn of events when militants were waiting on the launch pads across the LOC. In reply to a question a senior official of a paramilitary force said "even partial withdrawal of the AFSPA could allow militants chance to reorganise their activities in areas from where the Act had been withdrawn."
Meanwhile, the National Conference leadership is quite upset over the
union Home Minister, P Chidambaram's statement in which he hinted at amending the AFSPA without conceding Omar Abdullah's demand for withdrawal of the Act from Srinagar, Budgam, Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts.
The NC MP Dr Mehboob Beg has criticised the centre for not accepting the genuine demand of the NC for withdrawal of AFSPA. He wanted the Government to reconsider "our demand" so that neither the separatists nor the subversives had any reason to campaign against human rights violations.
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