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| Daylight murder of retired DySP exposes chinks in security armour | | Was it a message killing? | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 11: The broad daylight murder of a retired police officer in the heart of Srinagar city has once again exposed chinks in the security armour, but more importantly, it has proved a disturbing fact-militants can choose to strike at will and do so successfully.
It is not that a retired or serving police officer was attacked for the first time in the State, nor was it for the first time that militants carried out their sinister designs and then vanished into the thin air. What is a matter of serious concern is that the attack has come at a time when the Jammu and Kashmir Government had started to push its case for revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
It is very convenient to suggest that revocation of AFSPA from a city like Srinagar or Jammu where the Army anyway does not carry out anti-militancy operations would not materially affect the ground situation nor impact the security capabilities of the security forces. But, what must be remembered by everybody including the State Chief Minister is that security like strife is essentially a state of mind and that the advantage would only lie with the security forces as long as they dominate a certain area.
Things might need a little explanation for those who for the sake of political one-upmanship argue that the AFSPA cannot continue at any place endlessly. No actionable intelligence inputs came forward to the security forces in the Valley during the early 1990s and that happened precisely because the separatists called all the shots.
In areas where the tide turned gradually, actionable intelligence started pouring in first with a trickle and then a time came during area domination by the Army and the other security forces that the deployed security force personnel would find it difficult to keep pace with the intelligence inputs pouring against the militants.
A cursory look at the public response to separatist strike calls would reveal that these have negligible response in areas where the security forces dominate and these are surprisingly very well received in areas where militants are believed to be still active.
Seen in this context, the daylight murder of a retired DySP in Tengpora locality of the city would have an immediate impact on the psyche of the people living not only in the city but also elsewhere in the Valley. The managers of State's security grid will do well to remember that restoring peace and tranquility requires sweat and blood of the men in uniform while hijacking peace needs just one or two attacks like the one that happened in the city on Friday.
More than those directly manning the security in the State, it is the political masters who must stop meddling with a sensitive issue like the security of the State by harping on slogans those have so far emitted only smoke but no light. |
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