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| Terror outfits in Pak feed on poor, youth to sustain militancy in J&K | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, July 12: Like predators who always look out for young birds for an easy prey, the ISI and its terror outfits in Pakistan feed on the poor and under-privileged who do not have any work to do and whose families find it hard to provide them food and "expensive" clothes.
This section of the Pak population has always remained vulnerable to the militant ideology and the ISI's evil designs from the very beginning.
The statistics show that most of the Pak militants, languishing in J&K jails, are school dropouts and belong to poor families. Poverty is one of the reasons behind their becoming militants.
That the ISI and the militant outfits are still continuing with the same strategy became known Sunday last when when in the two-day 'Shuhada Conference', that concluded at Swan Bus Adda in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, it were the poor who responded to the call of Al-Badr Mujahideen (ABM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
The two outfits sought financial aid and recruits to continue their activities in Jammu and Kashmir to give impetus to the hitherto waning militancy in the state, official sources said, quoting Pak media reports in this regard.
Sources said even as Pakistan faced a pressure from the international community to close down all the terror camps operational on its soil, ABM and HM cadres dared to seek resources and recruits to fight security forces in J&K.
In the gathering of over 1,000, which was addressed by ABM chief Bakht Zameen Khan and HM chief Syed Salahuddin, it were the poor who showed willingness to take arms in hands, the sources added.
Earlier also, it had been the poor who were lured into the trap by ISI. They were trained in militant activities and then sent to this side of the border to keep militancy alive.
Dreaded militants -- Mohammad Mustafa alias Abu Akasha, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Salim, Mohammad Khalid and Qazi Jibran -- are the few poor Pak nationals in this list.
While Irfan, Salim and Khalid had broken the Kot-Bhalwal jail here on the night of October 16, 1998, and escaped to Pakistan, Mustafa was apprehended by police from Sunjawan here. All the four were school dropouts.
Irfan was the main accused in the January 26, 1995, M A Stadium blasts, but Mustafa was taken into custody before his plan to attack the jail here could succeed. The jail attack was planned to secure the release of some Pak militants, according to an official document.
Mustafa, who was sent to Jammu by a militant commander of Gool, had stayed in a teacher's house on Residency Road, at Belicharana migrants' camp and at several other city areas before he was arrested by police from Sunjawan on a tip-off.
He had also managed a state subject on a fake name and address and purchased a piece of land at Sunjawan. He had constructed a room there to dump arms and ammunition.
During his stay here, he was helped by a doctor at Sidhra and several other underground workers of different militant outfits. The moulvi of a mosque at Belicharana had arranged an identity card for him in lieu of Rs 3,500.
Qazi Jibran, also a Pak militant, too had spent several months in Bhatindi and other localities here to recce the vital police and Army installations.
He had, later, surrendered before Army at Tiger Division headquarters here with the efforts of Javaid Shah, NC leader and MLC, who was later shot dead by "militants" in his office at Srinagar.
Jibran had told reporters at the Tiger Division headquarters that he had been tasked to target vital police and Army installations. He too belonged to a poor Pak family.
He had also carried out the race of the congested Purani Mandi and Parade markets.
Sources said to stop the recruitment of youth in militant organisations, the Pak government must take steps to first stop the exploitation of the poor by militant commanders as the rich would never fall in their traps. |
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