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| Is situation conducive for AFSPA lifting ? | | | The recent events,including two grenade blasts in Sopore and Batamaloo area of Srinagar,in which 10 people including four policemen were injured,detonating 70kg IED on the outskirts of the state's summer capital, arrest of Hizbul Mujahideen militant and seizure of large quantities of arms and ammunition from him and from a rebel hideout in Kupwara do speak of a plan under which militants were trying to carve out new bases and hideouts in Jammu and Kashmir for giving new teeth to the two-decade long subversive violence.
And those who have any doubt on the plan need to focus their attention on the sudden increase in the infltration bids on the LOC and the IB.It is after a long interval,possibly after three to four years,that the Indian troops foiled a major ingress bid from across Uri sector by killing five infiltrators. This is being treated by the Army authorities as part of the plan of the handlers of militant operations to push groups of insurgents from unconventional routes.
In fact there have been series of encounters between the militants and the security forces in Pulwama, Handwara, Kupwara, Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch and Rajouri in recent months in which more than 15 militants were killed.
Four LeT militants have been ar rested in Poonch.What is a matter of concern is that majority of those militants killed in operations by the security forces during the last four months belonged to the dreaded Lashkar -i-Toiba outfit.
Police sources indicate that leaders of Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashka-i-Toiba outfits had started organising camps in the forest belts of border areas of the state for recruiting local boys in their outfits and for imparting arms training to them.
Not only this,those boys who had surren dered before the security forces and bid farwell to the gun were being motivated for rejoining their parent militant outfits.
In some cases former militants were being threatened with dire consequences if they failed to join either the Lashkar or Hizbul Mujahideen outfit.
Posters have appeared in a couple of places, including Pulwama in south Kashmir, in which newly elected Panches and Sarpanches have been asked to resign failing which they would be killed alongwith the members of their families.
Though these posters have yet to evoke response from the Panches and Sarpanches, the contents have caused a scare among people. If on one hand people in Kashmir rejoice over the ongoing bumper tourist traffic to the valley and are expecting a heavy rush of pilgrims to the holy cave of Amarnath, on the other all those connected with tourism and pilgrim traffic are worried. "Will militants allow the tourist traffic remain uninterrupted ?" "Will militants lie low during the Amarnath pilgrimage ?" These qestions haunt people in the state. And those who are really worried about the reports on regrouping of militans are opposed to plan on withdrawing AFSPA from the state. They are opposeed to lifting of the AFSPA even from Srinagar and Budgam districts. Let the legal cover enjoyed by the security forces remain untouched till the end of autumn season as by that period the tourist traffic would get reduced to a trickle. Those connected with tourism and pilgrim traffic want the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, to stop politicising AFSPA issue and leave the matter in the hands of the police and the Army. |
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