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| Lashkar-e-Islam gets 'license to kill' | | After Geelani, UJC disowns the group | | ET Report
Jammu, June 1: In a well planned move the separatists and militants have disowned the militant group 'Lashkar-e-Islam' which has unleashed terror across Kashmir and is targeting mobile towers and the people associated with the telecom sector.
On Sunday, Hurriyat hawk, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, called a meeting of the separatists and representatives of different sections of the society at his Hyderpora residence in uptown Srinagar and disowned the 'Lashkar-e-Islam,' as the actions of the group have triggered severe resentment across Kashmir.
Day after Geelani's statement the group targeted a mobile tower at Habba Kadal injuring a civilian and creating panic in the entire Srinagar city following which many cellular companies suspended their services in city. Prior to Srinagar, mobile companies had suspended their services in north Kashmir after militants killed two persons associated with telecom sector. Soon after the communication breakdown in north Kashmir, threatening posters appeared in south Kashmir's Khrew area forcing already terrified people associated with the telecom sector to shut their businesses. Finally militants targeted Srinagar on Monday. There is every possibility about Kashmir facing the communication breakdown and it being pushed into 1990 era.
After Geelani disowned the Lashkar-e-Islam, the Pakistan occupied Kashmir based United Jihad Council, a conglomerate of militant outfits, on Monday towed Hurriyat hawk's line and claimed the Lashkar-e-Islam has got "nothing to do with PoK based militant groups."
The PoK based UJC spokesman Syed Sadakat Hussain in a statement to Srinagar based agency claimed that LeI doesn't exist anywhere and it's the "creation of Indian agencies."
However, analysts and Kashmir watchers are not ready to buy the argument of either Geelani or UJC. "By disowning the group they have given a license to LeI to kill innocents and spread terror by hitting soft targets like mobile vendors. This will create uncertainty in Kashmir and would help Pakistan and its agents to keep the pot boiling," said an analyst.
"Separatists led by Geelani and militants are enacting a drama to put the blame on India. But they stand exposed before the people as common man has realized that people like Geelani and Salahuddin are not their friends. They are paid agents whose only job is to create trouble in Kashmir," the analyst added.
Police on Sunday had arrested three persons in south Kashmir's Khrew area for pasting the downloaded posters of Lashkar-e-Islam threatening mobile vendors to shut their businesses. Police had claimed that arrested trio had militant links and investigations are on to track other culprits.
On the other hand Police in north Kashmir, according to the sources, have arrested a youth in connection with the attack on mobile tower in Sopore area and he is being questioned.
Police are tightlipped over the issue, but sources said, that investigations are on at a rapid pace and suspects are being picked up. "We can expect a breakthrough very soon and we would prove Geelani and UJC wrong. There is no doubt about the fact that the people associated with this lesser known Lashkar-e-Islam are militants and they are following the instructions of their handlers sitting across the Line of Control," a police official told Early Times. |
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