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AFSPA not applicable to us, says DG CRPF 5/15/2015 12:12:41 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 14: The CRPF revealed on Thursday that AFSPA is not applicable to it and that it cannot comment over whether it should continue or to be scraped from Jammu and Kashmir. “AFSPA is not applicable to us. So, I would not like to comment on this,” Director General CRPF Prakash Mishra told reporters here, adding that he is giving a proposal to the Jammu and Kashmir government for special recruitment of youth here. “We are happy that Kashmiri youth are taking part in it (army recruitment rallies). Chief Minister is also keen that more youths should join the forces,” the DG CRPF said.Commenting over the recent killing of two of its personnel in Islamabad district, the DG maintained that CRPF is working on changing the strategy of deployment and patrolling in order to curb the incidents of weapon-snatching by militants. “Strategy will be changed to stop weapon snatching incidents. Do not want militants to take away our weapons or that we suffer any damages in these incidents. We are working on that,” Mishra said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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