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| Need for upgrading anti-ingress grid on border | | | D.K.Kotwal | 8/10/2015 11:10:15 PM |
| The security forces,including the Army, continue to be in the thick of battle with militants,operating within Jammu and Kashmir,and those trying to sneak into the State from across the LoC and the IB.A situation seems to have developed in the Kashmir valley where civilians have started providing assistance,food and shelter to groups of militants which have helped rebels to consolidate their position and plan their armed strike.That a section of civilians in the Kashmir valley have provided support to militants is indicated by the way Naveed,who was captured soon after he and his associate, attacked a BSF bus on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Udhampur in which two BSF soldiers were killed,received ample support and assistance from civilians during their over three-month stay in the valley after having crossed into Kashmir from across Kupwara sector.In this connection six people were taken into custody after Naveed informed the police and National Investigation Agency, interrogating him,that these six people provided them shelter and support in south Kashmir during their sojourn in the valley.The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has joined the J&K Police in interrogating militant Naveed who was captured in Udhampur district when gunmen attacked a BSF vehicle earlier this week. Naveed was brought to Srinagar late Friday evening by the NIA sleuths from Jammu and their primary focus was to find out his associates in Kashmir.Naveed has named six people in South Kashmir who had provided him shelter. All six have been arrested.
If Naveed's disclosure on his and that of his associates' infiltration from across the border is any guide it does speak volumes about the LoC being porous.That Naveed and his colleagues snapped the border fence is nothing new as in the past infiltrators have used scissors and knives with plastic handles and other gadgets for snapping the barbed wire.This incident seems to have placed added responsibility on the shoulders of the Army, guarding the LoC, and the BSF,deployed on the IB in Jammu,because they are no longer supposed to believe that the barbed border fence was a foolproof mechanism against infiltration. It is in this context that the Defence Ministry, reports indicated,has agreed to dispatch additional companies of Indian troops on the LOC. More than 5,000 additional soldiers were being deployed to man highly sensitive and ingress prone spots right from Uri-Kupwara-Rajouri-Poonch. Reports say that these soldiers have been brought from within the state where they had been tackling the activities of militants.Yes,it is a good step.In fact this step should have been taken three to four months earlier because the level of infiltration has shown a sudden upward trend,despite the fact that the senior functionaries had been denying reports on increased infiltration rate.These senior functionaries of the Army felt satisfied whenever troops foiled infiltration bids and during the last seven months more than 17 militants(infiltrators) had been killed while they were trying to sneak into Kashmir from across the LoC. Now that troops, deployed within the state, have been dispatched to the LoC it is time for the Union Home Ministry to review the latest security scenario for the purpose of finding out whether there was need for posting additional companies of paramilitary forces for replacing the Army companies that were being send to the border.There is need for deployment of additional companies of paramilitary forces within the state,especially in the Kashmir valley, where separatists too try to incite people to violence. These separatists have started making it their routine political activity by organizing shutdowns or for organizing protest rallies or for marching to the areas which have been affected by violence or where militants have fell to the bullets of the security forces. In this connection Molvi Umar Farooq,chairman APHC,was placed under the house arrest in order to foil his march to Kakapora in Pulwama district where a militant was killed in a gun fight between rebels and the security forces. This shows that separatists were also trying to win over peoples' support by voicing their solidarity with militants killed in police action. Yes,these separatists cannot function in isolation.They have to keep militants in good humour so that they helped them in evoking full response to their(separatists') call for shutdown.These separatists are keen to woo militants as these rebels act as their (separatists) military arm. These separatists know that if they annoy these militants their (separatists) survival was in danger.Hence the security forces,deployed within the state, the Army,guarding the LoC and the BSF,deployed on the IB,have to reframe their policies on upgrading the security and anti-infiltration grid in the state and on its border. |
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